Re: Quick IP6/BGP question

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

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.

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TTFN,
patrick