Enabling next-hop recursion

Next hop recursion can be enabled so that a device can find the IGP route to the next hop gateway for a BGP4+ route.
  1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode. 
    device# configure terminal
  2. Enter the router bgp command to enable BGP routing. 
    device(config)# router bgp
  3. Enter the address-family ipv6 unicast command to enter IPv6 address family configuration mode. 
    device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast
  4. Enter the next-hop-recursion command to enable recursive next hop lookups. 
    device(config-bgp-ipv6u)# next-hop-recursion

The following example enables recursive next hop lookups. 

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast
device(config-bgp-ipv6u)# next-hop-recursion
Parent topic: BGP4+ next hop recursion