Help with quagga BGP config for ipv6 route-server

David Waitzman djw at bbn.com
Thu Dec 22 14:57:30 UTC 2011


I am trying to set up BGP peering with a route-server, concurrently dual-stack.  BGP 4 over an IPv4 connection works fine.  A separate BGP 6 over IPv6 fails: with an "[Error] No common capability".  

I am using quagga 0.99.20 on ubuntu 10.04.03.   I don't know what the route-server is.
I have tried to tell both quagga to not be strict about capabilities or not negotiate them at all.

My quagga config includes:
router bgp XX
no bgp enforce-first-as
no bgp default ipv4-unicast             !! tried with and without this

bgp router-id XX
network XY/24 route-map SetAttr

neighbor XX4 remote-as XX
neighbor XX4 activate
neighbor XX4 next-hop-self
neighbor XX4 send-community

address-family ipv6
network XY6/48 route-map SetAttr
neighbor XX6 remote-as XX
neighbor XX6 activate
neighbor XX6 next-hop-self
neighbor XX6 send-community
neighbor XX6 soft-reconfiguration inbound

The code, I think, that's triggering the error is:
/* Check there is no common capability send Unsupported Capability
    error. */
 if (*capability && ! CHECK_FLAG (peer->flags, PEER_FLAG_OVERRIDE_CAPABILITY))
   {
     if (! peer->afc_nego[AFI_IP][SAFI_UNICAST] 
         && ! peer->afc_nego[AFI_IP][SAFI_MULTICAST]
         && ! peer->afc_nego[AFI_IP][SAFI_MPLS_VPN]
         && ! peer->afc_nego[AFI_IP6][SAFI_UNICAST]
         && ! peer->afc_nego[AFI_IP6][SAFI_MULTICAST])

From tcpdump, my side's open message includes:
	Open Message (1), length: 57
	  Version 4, my AS XX, Holdtime 180s, ID XX4      !! XX4 is my V4 address
	  Optional parameters, length: 28
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 6
	      Multiprotocol Extensions (1), length: 4
		AFI IPv4 (1), SAFI Unicast (1)
		0x0000:  0001 0001
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 2
	      Route Refresh (Cisco) (128), length: 0
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 2
	      Route Refresh (2), length: 0
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 6
	      32-Bit AS Number (65), length: 4
		no decoder for Capability 65
		0x0000:  0000 e0c5
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 2
	      Unknown (66), length: 0
		no decoder for Capability 66

The route-server's response is:
	Open Message (1), length: 45
	  Version 4, my AS XX, Holdtime 240s, ID XY4   !! XY4 is his V4 address
	  Optional parameters, length: 16
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 14
	      Multiprotocol Extensions (1), length: 4
		AFI IPv6 (2), SAFI Unicast (1)
		0x0000:  0002 0001

To which I respond:
	Notification Message (3), length: 27, OPEN Message Error (2), subcode Capability Message Error (7)

When I add "dont-capability-negotiate" to the config, I send:
	Open Message (1), length: 29
          Version 4, my AS 57541, Holdtime 180s, ID XX4
	  Optional parameters, length: 0

I get back:
	Open Message (1), length: 45
	  Version 4, my AS XX, Holdtime 240s, ID XY4
	  Optional parameters, length: 16
	    Option Capabilities Advertisement (2), length: 14
	      Multiprotocol Extensions (1), length: 4
		AFI IPv6 (2), SAFI Unicast (1)
		0x0000:  0002 0001

I respond:
	Notification Message (3), length: 27, OPEN Message Error (2), subcode Capability Message Error (7)

I'm a developer and former rfc writer, not a network operator.

thanks nanog,
--
David Waitzman
BBN Technologies




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