Re: Trouble with IPv6 setup on Quagga

[Vicky Shrestha <vicky () geeks net np>]

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On Aug 7, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Marco Hogewoning wrote:

> > I am having trouble with Quagga in setting up IPv6 BGP. So far it was
> > failing with external providers. Just now I gave it a try to setup BGP
> > session (IPv6 only) within our ASN between two routers.
> >
> > From our other end router I see there is no acconcement, while I see blocks
> > being announced via Quagga. Also strange enough is that the number of
> > blocks I account - they all come as "withdrawl routes" on other router as
> > soon as Quagga is turned on.
>
> I recall some issues with the value of the next-hop in the BGP messages in the past. Haven't been around Quagga in 
> recent times, don't know if this is still the case. If possible you might want to catch a BGP packet with tcpdump and 
> verify the value in there makes sense to the other side.

We were having those issue with quagga-0.99.15 and cisco routers; haven't tested recent versions.  

We used a route map to fix the ipv6 next hop for outbound announcements in quagga.


> Got bitten by this before and took me ages to figure out the other side was dropping my updates because the next-hop 
> couldn't be resolved.
>
> Marco

Regards,


Vicky Shrestha



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