Re: [v6ops] draIn ft-ietf-v6ops-design-choices WGLC

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Thu, 09 April 2015 15:43 UTC

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On 09/04/2015 16:32, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Large-scale provider networks would normally use a GUA as a next-hop for
> the bgp prefix and set it to be the address of the PE device which
> originated the prefix.

I should qualify this a bit better: large scale providers running native
ipv6 will do this.  Many large scale providers will run ipv6 on mpls/6pe,
where the bgp NH IP is the ipv4 identifier address of the PE.

Nick