topic RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Sumanta_Ghosh — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:03:00 GMT

Hi Experts

Getting error while trying to advertise IPv6 routes in BGP peering. IPv4 works fine, but getting error in IPv6. The below network is preset in IPv6 routing table and shows as being directly connected.

(vr Test) SwitchA # configure bgp add network address-family ipv6-unicast fd01:976a:14fd:e7c0::/68

Error: vr Test: IPv6 network is not valid, must be a global unicast address and not a unique local address

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Sumanta_Ghosh — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:18:00 GMT

This example does not shed much light about LUA or GUA?

https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Solution/Bgp-ipv6-networks-not-transmitted-to-bgp...

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Frank — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:27:00 GMT

Your netmask, /68, is that a typo?
Because I think that /64 is the smallest size you can advertise via routing protocols.

I'm also not sure what happens when you use private V6 networks (the ones starting with fd) and put them in BGP. Part of me says it should work, but I've never tried it. Just like I've never tried putting "192.168.1.0" into BGP.

Frank

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Nick_Yakimenko — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:27:00 GMT

well, if it is IGP -- why not? BGP announcements between internal routers

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Henrique — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:52:00 GMT

Hi Sumanta, based on the error message you should add a Global Unicast Address.

GUA is currently defined by IPv6 prefix 2000::/3 which gives you the range below:

2000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 to 3fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff

ULA is currently defined by IPv6 prefix FC00::/7 which gives you the range below:

fc00:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 to fdff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Stephane_Grosj1 — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 02:41:00 GMT

what version of EXOS are you running, btw?

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Sumanta_Ghosh — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 02:41:00 GMT

Hi

Please see below:-

ExtremeXOS version 21.1.2.14

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Edward_Tsui — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:42:00 GMT

This is clearly stated in RFC4193:

The default behavior of exterior routing protocol sessions between administrative routing regions must be to ignore receipt of and not advertise prefixes in the FC00::/7 block. A network operator may specifically configure prefixes longer than FC00::/7 for inter-site communication.
If BGP is being used at the site border with an ISP, the default BGP configuration must filter out any Local IPv6 address prefixes, both incoming and outgoing. It must be set both to keep any Local IPv6 address prefixes from being advertised outside of the site as well as to keep these prefixes from being learned from another site. The exception to this is if there are specific /48 or longer routes created for one or more Local IPv6 prefixes.

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Sumanta_Ghosh — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:17:00 GMT

Hi Ed

So is this default behavior as per RFC? Extreme doesn't allow LUA to be used in BGP advertisement, even if it's within internal network (not globally routable) ?

RE: IPv6 BGP network advertisement

Henrique — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:35:00 GMT

Hi Sumanta, we are in touch with our engineering team regarding this topic and will update this thread as soon as we have more details.

We know (based on the RFC) that there are some restrictions when exchanging ULA prefixed between sites. However, since we are talking about iBGP, my guess is that it should work.