IOS next-hop trouble

Pim van Pelt pim@ipng.nl
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:18:07 +0100


On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:38:28AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
| On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Pim van Pelt wrote:
| > Dear admin friends,
| > 
| > Recently I engaged in another IPv6 adventure at some ISP. We are now
| > running IOS 12.2-8.5.T on a c7206VXR.
| > 
| > The logs state:
| > Mar 28 22:47:36 fe2-0.4.sara.ams-ix.network.bit.nl 2288: 3d12h:
| > %BGP-6-NEXTHOP: Invalid next hop (0.0.0.0) received from
| > 2001:7F8:1::A500:3265:1: martian next hop
| > 
| > for our peerings the AMS-IX. How can I solve this. Clearly IPv6
| > BGP has nothing to do with the IPv4 nexthop so the Juniper at :3265:1
| > leaves it empty. Why does my box complain ?
| 
| Are you peering with some box running Zebra?  I noticed this happened with 
| zebra when they didn't run 'zebra -d' before starting 'bgpd -d'.

The peer mentioned is a Juniper JunOS 5.2 box (xs4all-nl). I have seen
this on a zebra box also, but I forced nexthop to be 'self' and that
helped the situation. This Cisco of mine is already advertising
next-hop-self and that didn't help.

groet,
Pim

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