[j-nsp] LSP's with IPV6 on Juniper

[Mark Tinka]

On 27/Aug/18 18:39, craig washington wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> Wondering if anyone is using MPLS with IPV6?
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> I have read on 6PE and the vpn counterpart but these all seem to take into account that the CORE isn't running IPV6?
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> My question is how can we get the ACTUAL IPV6 loopback addresses into inet6.3 table? Would I need to do a rib import for directly connected?
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> If you run "ipv6-tunneling" this seems to only work if the next-hop is an IPV4 address. (next-hop self)
>
> I also messed around with changing the next-hop on the v6 export policy to the IPV4 loopback and this works too but figured there should be a different way?
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> So overall, I am trying to find a way for v6 routes to use the same LSP's as v4 without changing the next hop to a v4 address.

LDPv6 is your friend.

We have a dual-vendor network with varying levels of LDPv6 support, so
we haven't tested this in the real wild.

Mark.