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Add ability to deactivate the IPv4 address-family for BGP peers.
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At the moment, the IPv4 AFI is activated by default for all peers, which is usually not desired for IPv6 peers.

vyos has set protocols bgp 123 parameters default no-ipv4-unicast but this doesn't seem to actually do anything other than add "bgp default ipv4-unicast" to the config, because "protocols bgp var neighbor var remote-as" automatically adds the activate line.

Something like:

set protocols bgp 123 neighbor 2001:DB8::1 no-activate

This should then apply "no neighbor 2001:DB8::1 activate" to the neighbor

Ideally no-activate would be the default if no-ipv4-unicast was set.

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Dataforce created this task.Dec 27 2016, 3:44 AM
syncer triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Aug 1 2017, 4:37 AM
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Moved that to wishlist priority,
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syncer removed syncer as the assignee of this task.Nov 3 2017, 12:25 PM
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dsummers added a subscriber: dsummers.Feb 16 2018, 5:51 AM

I'm attempting to go all IPv6 internally so this would be nice to have if it doesn't currently work.

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pasik added a subscriber: pasik.Oct 1 2018, 9:54 AM
syncer edited projects, added VyOS 1.2 Crux (VyOS 1.2.0-rc4); removed VyOS 1.2 Crux.Oct 13 2018, 10:09 AM
syncer merged a task: T38: Add no-ipv4-unicast option.Oct 20 2018, 5:06 AM
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syncer changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Enhancement".Oct 20 2018, 7:00 AM
syncer edited projects, added VyOS 1.2 Crux (VyOS 1.2.0-rc5); removed VyOS 1.2 Crux (VyOS 1.2.0-rc4).Oct 24 2018, 4:40 PM
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dmbaturin added a comment.Nov 3 2018, 11:18 PM

With the new BGP syntax where IPv4 is in its own address family just like IPv6, the no default ipv4-unicast option should work as expected. See T849.

dmbaturin closed this task as Resolved.Nov 3 2018, 11:19 PM
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syncer added a project: VyOS-1.2.0-GA.Nov 3 2018, 11:24 PM
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niekvanderven added a subscriber: niekvanderven.Nov 30 2018, 9:37 AM

Hi, on the latest VyOS 1.2.0-rc9 the command:
set protocols bgp 65010 parameters default no-ipv4-unicast

is working though a bit too good, as after a reboot there are no BGP sessions anymore both for v4 and v6, all the peers are defined with their address family's as it should.