The 7210 SAS implementation supports advertising and resolving IPv6 prefix FECs over an LDP IPv4 session using a 32-bit LSR-ID, in compliance with RFC 7552. When introducing an LSR based on the 7210 SAS in a LAN with a broadcast interface, it can peer with third-party LSR implementations that support RFC 7552 and LSRs that do not. When it peers, using an IPv4 LDP control plane, with a third-party LSR implementation that does not support it, the advertisement of IPv6 addresses or IPv6 FECs to that peer may cause it to bring down the IPv4 LDP session.
That is, there are deployed third-party LDP implementations that are compliant with RFC 5036 for LDP IPv4, but that are not compliant with RFC 5036 for handling IPv6 address or IPv6 FECs over an LDP IPv4 session. To resolve this issue, RFC 7552 modifies RFC 5036 by requiring implementations complying with RFC 7552 to check for the dual-stack capability TLV in the IPv4 Hello message from the peer. Without the peer advertising this TLV, an LSR must not send IPv6 addresses and FECs to that peer. The 7210 SAS implementation supports this requirement.