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Re: [v6ops] [Idr] BGP Identifier

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Mon, 17 February 2014 10:13 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] [Idr] BGP Identifier
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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:10:57PM +0800, Fan, Peng wrote:
> Yes that is a possible solution for troubleshooting, once the router_id has
> been determined. But how do you determine at first the value of a.b.c.d when
> there is no ipv4 address to be referred to, especially in an automatic
> manner? Beforehand planning work for the ids for the entire network is
> something I am concerned with :)

How do you plan transit network and loopback IP assignment?

See, it's quite doable.

(Assign loopback addresses in a way that you can use the last 32 bits as 
router ID, done)

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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