Re: Quick IP6/BGP question

[Martin List-Petersen <martin () airwire ie>]

On 26/05/10 19:55, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On May 26, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
> > On 2010-05-25, at 17:40, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> >
> > > On 24/05/10 19:21, Thomas Magill wrote:
> > > > > From the provider side, are most of you who are implementing IP6
> > > > peerings running BGP over IP4 and just using IP6 address families to
> > > > exchange routes or doing IP6 peering?
> > >
> > > Most Internet Exchanges do not allow to mix on the same transport. So
> > > IPv4 peering over IPv4 transport, IPv6 peering over IPv6 transport, you
> > > can use the same interface though.
> >
> > Most Internet Exchanges don't care what BGP protocol options consenting neighbours decide to use, in my experience. 
> > (If they cared, what could they do?)
>
> Don't care?  I think you mean "don't know".
>
> The exchange that starts snooping my BGP session to see what I am trading with my peer is the exchange that will lose 
> my business.

Ok, let's clarify, what I was on about: I was talking about the peering
sessions to the route-servers.

What the IXP members do peering wise between themselves is hardly enforced.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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