<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Guys,</div><div><br></div><div>can anyone explain why the KENREL-Protocol does not support IPv4 and IPv6 Channels in one instance? BGP, OSPF and so on also supports that, what is so special on KERNEL that this is not supported? That makes a huge configuration mess.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The Kernel protocol supports both IPv4 and IPv6 channels; only one of them can be configured in each protocol instance.</blockquote><div><b>Source:</b> <a href="http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=bird-6.html#ss6.6">http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=bird-6.html#ss6.6</a></div><div><br></div><div>So i have to double the instances to do IPv6 and IPv4 stuff on KERNEL-Protocol?</div><div><br></div><div>What is so wrong about that configuration lines?</div><div>Why should this screw up your routing table?</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace, monospace">#<br># Kernel DEFAULT Table<br>#<br>protocol kernel kernel_default {<br>        kernel table 253;<br>        ipv4 {<br>                table default4;<br>                export all;<br>        };<br>        ipv6 {<br>                table default6;<br>                export all;<br>        };<br>}</font> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace, monospace">#<br># Kernel EBGP Routing Table<br>#<br>protocol kernel kernel_ebgp {<br>        kernel table 110;<br>        ipv4 {<br>                table ebgp4;<br>                export all;<br>        };<br>        ipv6 {<br>                table ebgp6;<br>                export all;<br>        };<br>}</font> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace, monospace">#<br># Kernel IBGP Routing Table<br>#<br>protocol kernel kernel_ibgp {<br>        kernel table 100;<br>        ipv4 {<br>                table ibgp4;<br>                export where proto != "interfaceroutes";<br>        };<br>        ipv6 {<br>                table ibgp6;<br>                export where proto != "interfaceroutes";<br>        };<br>}</font></blockquote></div></div>