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Re: BGP Connections

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com> Fri, 20 September 2002 13:54 UTC

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:56:07 -0400
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
To: Mareline Sheldon <marelines@yahoo.com>
Cc: idr@merit.edu
Subject: Re: BGP Connections
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:38:41PM -0700, Mareline Sheldon wrote:
> are there any thoughts for writing a BGP spec for IPv6 which uses the IPv6 features like
> anycast, link local IP addresses, site local etc.. as of now we just use IPv4 to carry IPv6
> information. Are there any thoughts for actually running BGP over v6?

GateD and Cisco definitely interoperate using IPv6 as its networking layer.

What "features" of IPv6 were you specifically thinking of?
Anycast would be generally broken since we use a transport protocol
like TCP.
There was a link-layer peering extension proposed a while ago:
draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-01

> mareline s.

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Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies

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