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	Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Quagga as border router
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Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> But OpenBGPD doesn't look like an alternative for you, if you are using
>> ipv6 as it only supports ipv4 route distribution (according to man pages)
> 
> IPv6 is an absolute MANDATORY requirement. If a recommendation does not
> support IPv6, than it will NOT fit into my environment.

I'm curious. Has anybody tried xorp? Is it competitive when used in environments
with many routes? It does support both IPv4 and IPv6.