[quagga-users 9958] Re: BGP over IPv6 routing informations not sent in UPDATE message

Nick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I was trying to configure two BGP routers with IPv6 
> capabalities. I am using quagga (version 0.99.9) and I am running it 
> on Ubuntu 8.04 system.
>
> I will detail upon my configurations:
>
> There are three virtual machines(all Ubuntu virtual OS) running on 
> Ubuntu base system. The base and one Ubuntu guest (Ubuntu-guest1) are 
> acting as the BGP routers. I divided it to have two AS so that
>
> AS 3 includes -> Host Ubuntu(*) + Ubuntu Guest 3
> AS 4 includes -> Ubuntu Guset1(*) + Ubuntu guest 2
> where * is the BGP routers.
>
> I removed all the irrelevant routes so that it virtually creates 
> dynamic routing. I tested this network setup with IPv4 and it worked 
> perfectly fine in sharing routes and updating the kernel routes in the 
> BGP routers.
>
> So I wanted to test the same netwotk configuration with IPv6 
> capabilities. I changed my interface addresses to have a non-local 
> link address (I chose feco::ac10:0/112).  The  network configuration 
> was fine but I saw that the UPDATE messages  of BGP is always showing 
> IPv4 routes in its NLRI "Network Layer Reachability Information" 
> field. I added a filter at the OUT interface of BGP routers to match 
> IPV6 addresses and then onwards ther is no UPDATE message. I would 
> like to see where I went wrong.