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Make IPv4 and IPv6 BGP options syntax consistent
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Description

There is a long-established inconsistency in BGP options. Options for IPv4 are right inside the neighbor, while IPv6 options are inside "address-family ipv6-unicast". For example, we have "neighbor x.x.x.x route-map export Foo" for IPv4, but "neighbor x.x.x.x address-family ipv6-unicast route-map export Foo" for IPv6.

FRR migration uncovered a nasty shortcoming of this: its correct functioning was dependent on particular behaviour of the old Quagga that enabled IPv4 on all peers with IPv4 addresses, whether "no default ipv4 unicast" option was set or not. FRR exhibits logical behaviour and disabled IPv4 BGP on all peers if that option is enabled.

Making IPv4 and IPv6 syntax consistent will not only improve, well, syntax consistency, but also automatically resolve the issue with that behaviour change.

Details

Difficulty level
Normal (likely a few hours)
Version
1.2.0
Why the issue appeared?
Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)

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dmbaturin created this task.Sep 16 2018, 4:58 PM
syncer changed the task status from Open to In progress.Sep 25 2018, 2:03 PM
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dmbaturin mentioned this in T234: Add ability to deactivate the IPv4 address-family for BGP peers..Nov 3 2018, 11:18 PM
c-po subscribed.Jun 1 2019, 8:06 AM

@dmbaturin is there any reason the IPv6 peer-group is under address-family ipv6-unicast and the IPv4 peer-group is not? Seems this one was missed during migration?

neighbor 2001:DB8:FFFF::1 {
     address-family {
         ipv6-unicast {
             peer-group iBGP
         }
     }
 }
neighbor 172.16.1.1 {
     peer-group iBGP
 }
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c-po closed this task as Resolved.Mar 14 2021, 8:54 AM
c-po set Is it a breaking change? to Unspecified (possibly destroys the router).