On 29.09.2010 21:16 Christoph Biedl wrote > I don't see a single bit about this in the documentation ... > > For quite some time bird served me very well for dynamic routing > within a small network using the BGP method. Until the day when I > wanted to enable IPv6 on all routers. > > The Debian distribution ships two packages, bird and bird6, and as > far as I can see the only difference is the latter was compiled using > the --enable-ipv6 option. > > Now what am I supposed to do? > > Is bird6 supposed to do _all_ the work, v4 and v6?
no, it's for v6 _only_! > If yes, is it a feature bird6 cannot handle IPv4 addresses in the bgp > "neighbor" statement (yields "syntax error")? Prefixing into a v6 > address using '::ffff:' survives the parser, but these addresses are > not routed. > > Or should I really start bird6 as a second routing daemon to handle > the IPv6 prefixes? exactly! > This is silly since this means duplication of the configuration file > and all the peer detection and route switching is not synchronized. > Oh I would call it silly. From a protocol point of view, IPv6 has nothing to do with IPv4. > What magic did I miss? > Well, no magic at all. Simply use bird for IPv4 and bird6 for IPv6. Works like a charm ;-) Arnold -- Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany email: [email protected] phone: +49 6224 9259 299 mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 9259 333
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