[j-nsp] MX204 and IPv6 BGP announcements

[Lee Starnes]

Hello everyone,

I was having difficulty in getting an announcement of a IPv6 /32 block
using prefix-lists rather than redistribution of the IP addresses in from
other protocols. We only have a couple /64 blocks in use at the moment but
want to be able to announce the entire /32. In cisco, that would just be a
holddown route and then announce. Not sure how it works to Juniper.

I configured a prefix-list that contained the /32 block in it. Then created
a policy statement with term 1 from prefix-list <list> and then term 2 then
accept. Set the export in BGP protocol peer of this policy statement and it
just ignores it.

Now this same setup in IPv4 works fine.

After a week of going round and round with Juniper TAC, they had me setup a
rib inet6 aggregate entry for the /32 and then use that in the policy
statement.

It seemed kinda clugy, so just wanted to ask here if this is the typical
way of going about this or is there a better more accepted way of doing
this?

Thanks,

-Lee