[f-nsp] IPV6 BGP on FESX

[Greg Hankins]

I want to clarify IPv6 support on the CES and CER.  I'm not sure what your
SE meant, maybe this was a reference to the software license for IPv6.

IPv6 routing has been supported on the CES and CER starting with release
5.0 (April, 2010).  The CES needs the L3_PREM license to run IPv6, while
IPv6 is included in the CER base license.

The CES is indeed intended to be an edge switch and has less hardware
capacity for IP routes than the CER (up to combinations of 32K IPv4 and
8K IPv6 routes on the CES, and 512K IPv4/128K IPv6 routes on the CER).

Greg
...works for Brocade

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Greg Hankins <ghankins at mindspring.com>

-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:03:42 -0800
From: Charles Hurbert <charles at terabitsystems.com>
To: "George B." <georgeb at gmail.com>
Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] IPV6 BGP on FESX

> 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  
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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