How to advertise IPV6 prefixs over IPV4 BGP Session

[John Payne]

On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Herlianto <herlianto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I need your advice how to advertise iPV6 prefixs over IPV4 bgp Session.
>> 
>> Just now, Akamai team ask to advertise IPV6 prefixs that will be used for
>> Woorld IPV6 day over Existing IPV4 BGP Session.
>> 
> 
> It's a best practice AFAIK to create a new IPv6 session of BGP so that
> the next hops stay sane in your routing table.

If you're using it for routing, yes.  Not necessary in this specific case.