[159125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: JunOS IPv6 announcements over IPv4 BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Paseka)
Fri Dec 21 19:22:33 2012
In-Reply-To: <FA981085-4E1D-4353-B592-36F49C95DC76@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:22:21 -0800
From: Tom Paseka <tom@cloudflare.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> I would push back for a slightly different reason...
>
> Any inability to forward IPv6 might not impact the IPv4 peering session and
> you might run into a situation where the peering session stays up and
> continues
> exchanging routes, but the traffic cannot pass (or cannot pass in one
> direction
> which is even more fun to diagnose).
>
> Owen
>
>
The OP mentioned this was just for Akamai (for their DNS mapping). BGP
isn't used for forwarding path.
