How to advertise IPV6 prefixs over IPV4 BGP Session

[John Payne]

On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:45 AM, "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:

> We were faced with the same request a few days ago.... couldn't get it to
> export the v6 prefixes over top of the our existing v4 export session (not
> peering, just dumping tables to them which in turn are used by their boxes
> to figure out what's on-net for us and not).
> 
> Are you saying just add family inet6 ? (JunOS)  This is a multihop eBGP
> session in our case...

I think so, but I haven't yet done this myself on JUNOS :) your best bet is to ask the Akamai person you're working with for an example config ;)

> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: How to advertise IPV6 prefixs over IPV4 BGP Session
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> 
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Herlianto 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.
> 
> Just add the IPv6 unicast address family to that neighbor.  Don't forget
> IPv6 specific route-maps or prefix-lists or whatever you use.
> Ask your Akamai contact for examples, I'm sure they'd be happy to help.
> 
> Note that this BGP session isn't used for routing purposes.... you can think
> of it as a convenient method of communicating an ACL :)=
>