[171491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best practices IPv4/IPv6 BGP (dual stack)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri May 2 15:49:14 2014
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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <7208d8ca20a14690acf8f34a934a68ec@AINET-EX13-S02.ainet.local>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 15:47:24 -0400
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On May 2, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
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> Between peering routers on a dual-stacked network, is it considered =
best practices to have two BGP sessions (one for v4 and one for v6) =
between them? Or is it better to put v4 in the v6 session or v6 in the =
v4 session?
We use v4 transport for v4 routes and v6 transport for v6 routes only.
This way if one plane is unstable the other is unaffected.
- Jared=
