Services Using SDP with a SR IPv6 Tunnel

The MPLS SDP of type sr-isis with a far-end option using an IPv6 address is supported. Note the SDP must have the same IPv6 far-end address, used by the control plane for the T-LDP session, as the prefix of the node SID of the SR IPv6 tunnel.

configure
        — service
            — [no] sdp sdp-id mpls
                — [no] far-end ipv6-address
                — sr-isis
                — no sr-isis

The bgp-tunnel, lsp, sr-te lsp, sr-ospf, and mixed-lsp-mode commands are blocked within the SDP configuration context when the far-end is an IPv6 address.

SDP admin groups are not supported with an SDP using an SR IPv6 tunnel, or with SR-OSPF for IPv6 tunnels, and the attempt to assign them is blocked in the CLI.

Services that use LDP control plane such as T-LDP VPLS and R-VPLS, VLL, and IES/VPRN spoke interface have the spoke SDP (PW) signaled with an IPv6 T-LDP session because the far-end option is configured to an IPv6 address. The spoke SDP for these services binds to an SDP that uses an SR IPv6 tunnel where the prefix matches the far-end address. SR OS also supports the following:

The PW switching feature is not supported with LDP IPv6 control planes. As a result, the CLI does not allow the user to enable the vc-switching option whenever one or both spoke SDPs uses an SDP that has the far-end configured as an IPv6 address.

L2 services that use BGP control plane such as dynamic MS-PW, BGP-AD VPLS, BGP-VPLS, BGP-VPWS, and EVPN MPLS cannot bind to an SR IPv6 tunnel because a BGP session to a BGP IPv6 peer does not support advertising an IPv6 next-hop for the L2 NLRI. As a result, these services do not auto-generate SDPs using an SR IPv6 tunnel. In addition, they skip any provisioned SDPs with far-end configured to an IPv6 address when the use-provisioned-sdp option is enabled.

SR OS also supports multi-homing with T-LDP active/standby FEC 128 spoke SDP using SR IPv6 tunnel to a VPLS/B-VPLS instance. BGP multi-homing is not supported because BGP IPv6 does not support signaling an IPv6 next-hop for the L2 NLRI.

The Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) feature works with spoke SDPs bound to an SDP that uses an SR IPv6 tunnel.