[nsp] IPv6 BGP on 12.2(18)S1

[Mark Prior]

Gert Doering wrote:

> See Jared's response as well :-) - your router is using the "old" BGP
> configuration style, which needs to be upgraded to address-family style
> with "bgp upgrade-cli" first.
> 
> I've done this on a number of routers, and have always been pleasantly
> surprised by it "just working" - no crashes, no configuration data lost,
> etc.  (IPv4 unicast plus multicast setup with "nlri" style).

You were lucky. I tried that with a (very) remote 7206-VXR running 12.0S 
and it stopped passing packets. I have no idea what that had to do with 
changing the BGP syntax but the router came good after I backed it out 
(which of course wasn't as simple as the original change).

Mark.