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Re: Quick IP6/BGP question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed May 26 14:56:08 2010

From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <5842A1A6-0F40-4CA0-951E-6C7D00A50A61@hopcount.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:55:10 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On May 26, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
> On 2010-05-25, at 17:40, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
>=20
>> On 24/05/10 19:21, Thomas Magill wrote:
>>>> =46rom the provider side, are most of you who are implementing IP6
>>> peerings running BGP over IP4 and just using IP6 address families to
>>> exchange routes or doing IP6 peering?
>>=20
>> Most Internet Exchanges do not allow to mix on the same transport. So
>> IPv4 peering over IPv4 transport, IPv6 peering over IPv6 transport, =
you
>> can use the same interface though.
>=20
> Most Internet Exchanges don't care what BGP protocol options =
consenting neighbours decide to use, in my experience. (If they cared, =
what could they do?)

Don't care?  I think you mean "don't know".

The exchange that starts snooping my BGP session to see what I am =
trading with my peer is the exchange that will lose my business.

--=20
TTFN,
patrick



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