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Re: IPv6 routing protocols


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:27:24 +0200

On 10 jun 2011, at 12:20, Nick Hilliard wrote:

[nothing to support his earlier claim]

And it still carries link local next hop
addresses.

it's a bit more subtle than that - it depends on how the underlying router operating system handles next-hop 
resolution and how you configure your BGP.

It doesn't depend.

RFC 4760:

   An UPDATE message that carries the MP_REACH_NLRI MUST also carry the
   ORIGIN and the AS_PATH attributes (both in EBGP and in IBGP
   exchanges).  Moreover, in IBGP exchanges such a message MUST also
   carry the LOCAL_PREF attribute.

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