[f-nsp] IPV6 BGP on FESX

George B. georgeb at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 12:06:49 EST 2011


Right, the CES is meant for use as a switch, the CER is a router (hence the
S and the R difference on the third character).  My bad.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Charles Hurbert
<charles at terabitsystems.com>wrote:

>  Interestingly, the current FastIron Edge X line now has 2 separate
> options for L3 upgrades. The PREM which supports IPv4 only, and the PREM6
> license which supports IPv4+IPv6. So if you just have a FESX624-PREM, you'll
> be limited to IPv4. You'd need the FESX624-PREM6 for full IPv6.
>
> Also, just spoke with a SE at Brocade regarding this issue. The NI-CES line
> is meant more as an edge switch and does not currently support IPv6 (they
> said they would have a sw upgrade in the near future that would support
> IPv6). IN the Netiron line CER would be the option you'd require.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> On 2/8/2011 8:48 AM, George B. wrote:
>
> Yeah, if you are doing BGP4+ one should probably be using a CES2024 rather
> than and FESX*24.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Scott T. Cameron <routehero at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Not entirely true.  FESX6x8 doesn't support BGP4+ (V6 peers) yet.
>>
>>  Scott
>>
>>   On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:06 AM, David <webnetwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  The first number after the model letters specifies whether this is an
>>> IPv4 only box, or IPv4/IPv6. So if this was FESX624-PREM, you'd be fine, but
>>> the 424 cannot do IPv6.
>>>
>>> David.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>   *On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:33:21 -0800, David wrote*
>>>>  > Is this a FESX448/424 or FESX648/624?
>>>>
>>>>  It is FESX424-PREM.
>>>>
>>>> ~Randy
>>>>
>>>
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