discussion: Enabling IPv6 on Cisco 6500/7600 breaks IPv4 Internet connectivity

[Jared Mauch]

On Jun 26, 2012, at 1:36 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> In case of PFC3B(-XL), this is also of interest once IPv6 traffic is flowing:
> 
> <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-September/040653.html>
> 
> PFC3B will by default punt IPv6 packets with fragmentation header to RP
> and route them there, with the obvious performance penalty this incurs.
> 
> Workaround is to change this behaviour, meaning ACLs won't work for
> packets with fragmentation header anymore:
> 
>   #platform ipv6 acl fragment hardware ?
>     drop     Drop IPv6 fragments at hardware
>     forward  Forward IPv6 fragments at hardware
> 
> PFC3C is supposed to not be affected.


I'm once again reminded of something I observed.  Make sure you disable ipv6 redirects on all interfaces.  This has significant performance penalty.  On 6500/sup720 this should be easy to do with interface range command.

- jared