Concept Guide

Conguring IPv6 MBGP between peers
To congure IPv6 MBGP, use the following commands.
Following are the steps to congure IPv6 MBGP between two peers. The neighbors that are congured using neighbor remote-as
command exchange only the IPv4 unicast address prexes. In order to exchange IPv6 address prexes, you have to activate the neighbors
using neighbor activate command inside the address-family conguration.
• Enter the router conguration mode and the AS number.
CONFIG mode
router bgp as-number
• Add the IP address of the neighbor for the specied autonomous system.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode
neighbor {ip-address | ipv6–address | peer-group-name} remote-as as-number
• Specify the IPv6 address family conguration.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode
address-family ipv6 [unicast | vrf vrf-name]
unicast — Species the IPv6 unicast address family. The default address-family is IPv6 unicast.
vrf vrf-name — Species the name of VRF instance associated with the IPv6 address-family conguration.
• Enable the neighbor to exchange prexes for IPv6 unicast address family.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP-AF (Address Family) mode
neighbor {ip-address | ipv6–address | peer-group-name} activate
Example of conguring BGP Peers
DellEMC(conf)# router bgp 10
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# neighbor 2001::1 remote-as 200
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# neighbor 2001::1 no shutdown
DellEMC(conf-router_bgp)# address-family ipv6 unicast
DellEMC(conf-router_bgpv6_af)#neighbor 2001::1 activate
DellEMC(conf-router_bgpv6_af)#exit
Following is the output of show ip bgp ipv6 unicast summary command for the above conguration example.
DellEMC#show ip bgp ipv6 unicast summary
BGP router identifier 1.1.1.1, local AS number 10
BGP local RIB : Routes to be Added 0, Replaced 0, Withdrawn 0
1 neighbor(s) using 8192 bytes of memory
Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/Pfx
2001::1 200 0 0 0 0 0 00:00:00 0
DellEMC#
Example-Conguring IPv4 and IPv6 neighbors
The following example congurations show how to enable BGP and set up some peer under IPv4 and IPv6 address families.
To support your own IP addresses, interfaces, names, and so on, you can copy and paste from these examples to your CLI. Be sure that you
make the necessary changes.
Example-Conguring IPv4 and IPv6 neighbors
Example of enabling BGP and address family conguration in router (R1)
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)