[118407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 2009.10.21 NANOG47 day 3 notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Oct 21 15:59:28 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:56:31 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7a6830090910210837r780d2c3ao2fab45d305db39a1@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Ray Soucy wrote:
> Would be a good idea to stop spreading the false assumption that "ipv6
> enable" determines whether or not IPv6 is active on an interface.
>
Play with IPv6 and is-is enough on a Cisco router, and you'll enable it
as a matter of practice too. It's the definitive way to say "yes, this
interface needs IPv6 active and I don't care if there's an address bound
or not". I forget the exact circumstances, but I ran into several
cases where I had undesired results and needed to manually enable IPv6
on an interface. Oh, and different versions of IOS behave differently
towards IPv6. Imagine that.
Jack