Carry IPv4 routes over IPv6 sessions with IPv6 next hops (RFC 8950)
For a link that has only IPv6 addresses. - The Extended Next Hop capability is offered on every session over IPv6 whose families include IPv4 unicast, and used if the peer offers it too. Nothing to configure. - On such a session our IPv4 routes go out in MP_REACH_NLRI with the session's IPv6 address as next hop, and are withdrawn in MP_UNREACH_NLRI. Without the agreement they are not sent, as before. - IPv4 routes are read with an IPv6 next hop, global or global with link-local. - The kernel installer resolves an IPv4 route's IPv6 next hop like any other and installs it: by way of an IPv6 nexthop object, or with RTA_VIA where routes carry their own gateway. Tested against a real kernel in both modes, with a link-local next hop too, and in the lab against FRR and BIRD: the new `v6only` phase takes the IPv4 addresses off the exchange LAN, runs one IPv6 session with each router for both families, and pings IPv4 across. Sessions between link-local addresses are not supported yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `ExtendedNextHop` capability wire format | 🟡 |
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| `ExtendedNextHop` capability offered on sessions over IPv6 that carry IPv4 unicast, and used if the peer offers it | ✅ |
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| IPv4 unicast routes sent and withdrawn in MP_REACH_NLRI / MP_UNREACH_NLRI with our IPv6 address as next hop | ✅ |
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| IPv4 unicast routes received with an IPv6 next hop (global, or global and link-local) | ✅ |
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| Such routes installed in the kernel (IPv4 route by way of an IPv6 neighbor) | ✅ |
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| Other families than IPv4 unicast (VPN-IPv4, labelled) | ❌ |
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| Sessions between link-local addresses | ❌ |
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