On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
Or should I really start bird6 as a second routing daemon to handle the IPv6 prefixes?
Yes.
This is silly since this means duplication of the configuration file and all the peer detection and route switching is not synchronized.
It seems silly for the first moment, but it has several advantages. IPv4 and IPv6 usually needs slightly different configs, different filters (esp. addresses in filters) and having separate IPv4 sessions and IPv6 sessions means that you forward IPv4/6 routes only if IPv4/6 is really working on the routers. BTW, to run both bird4 and bird6 on one machine you have to add 'listen bgp v6only;' global option to the bird6 config file. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."