[Xorp-users] IPv6 & BGP

[Mark Handley]

On 12/17/05, Kristian Larsson <kristian@juniks.net> wrote:
> I'm having problem setting up a v6 only BGP
> connection. it would seem it requires a next-hop
> parameter which is v4. Since I don't have v4 on
> this machine at all it is difficult.
> Please advice

The BGP spec requires a NEXTHOP attribute in all routes, and this is
specified as an IPv4 address.  It needs this even if you're running
IPv6 only, but it shouldn't be used for the routing calculation.  I've
not tried it (probably Atanu has) but you should be able to specify
10.0.0.1 or something similar.

 - Mark