[j-nsp] Load Balancing IPv6 Traffic Flows

[Stefan Fouant]

Whoot!  You guys are awesome!

sfouant at rtrxxxx-re1# run show route forwarding-table destination
2001:xxx:dead:beef::/48
Routing table: inet6
Internet6:
Destination        Type RtRef Next hop           Type Index NhRef Netif
2001:xxx:dead:beef::/48 user     0                    ulst 1048589     4
                                                 indr 1048582     8
                              2001:xxx:xxxx::3   ucst   552     4 ge-2/3/0.0
                                                 indr 1048577     4
                              2001:xxx:xxxx::20  ucst   553     4 ge-2/3/0.0

Thanks,

Stefan Fouant
Principal Network Engineer
NeuStar, Inc. - http://www.neustar.biz

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Verlouw <daniel at bit.nl> wrote:
> On May 20, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone else has seen any similar problems and are
>> there any gotchya's when configuring load-balancing for IPv6 traffic.
>
>
> you cannot match on family inet and inet6 in one term, 8.5 returns the
> following error:
>
> [edit policy-options]
> daniel at jun1-test.galilei# commit check
> [edit]
>  'policy-options'
>    Policy error: Policy-statement load-balance, term prefixes: unable to
> merge prefix-list v6_routes because of different address family
> error: configuration check-out failed
>
> You need to split your policy into two separate terms, one matching on
> family inet and the other on family inet6, e.g.:
>
> [edit policy-options policy-statement load-balance]
> daniel at jun1-lab# show
> term v4_prefixes {
>    from {
>        prefix-list-filter v4_routes orlonger;
>    }
>    then {
>        load-balance per-packet;
>    }
> }
> term v6_prefixes {
>    from {
>        family inet6;
>        prefix-list-filter v6_routes orlonger;
>    }
>    then {
>        load-balance per-packet;
>    }
> }
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Daniel.
>