topic Re: OSPFv3 support for IPv4? in General Topics

OSPFv3 support for IPv4?

jsalmans — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:09:30 GMT

Greetings all,

I've been looking over some possible improvements to consider as we're moving our firewall deployment closer to production. We've got a lot of Cisco equipment through our core along with a switch VSS that runs various VRFs surrounding the PAN firewall. I noticed the Cisco implementation of OSPFv3 is supporting IPv4 address families as well as IPv6 in some of their newer firmware.

I was just wondering if Palo Alto is moving in that direction as well in a future software release? I'm on the latest but, just looking at configuring an OSPFv3 area now, it seems to be IPv6 only at this time.

Thanks!

Re: OSPFv3 support for IPv4?

Retired Member — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:53:32 GMT

Hi,

Correct, for the moment, OSPF V3 in palo is only supported for IPV6. As PANOS V8 should be annonced soon, maybe we will have news about new implementation.

Question is: What is the most efficient, merge everything in OSPF V3 or spliting routing OSPF V2 for IPV4 and OSPF V3 for IPV6 and in case of problem, splitting origin of the problem ...

Hope help

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Re: OSPFv3 support for IPv4?

jsalmans — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:00:40 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

Yes that is definitely a consideration... seperate routing allows for potential seperation of issues.

On the other hand, from my limited reading on the subject so far, OSPFv3 seems overall a bit easier to use (no need to specify networks in the ospf process for instance) and it's supposed to be more secure. I'm sure some of it is a convenience factor though... Cisco added IPv4 address support so that you didn't have to run a seperate OSPF process but not that you can't still.

*edit* I realize this is kind of off topic but I'm curious if anyone has heard when v8 might be announced? Also, I'm assuming most people wait a few release in before upgrading?

Thanks!

Re: OSPFv3 support for IPv4?

jdelio — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:41:00 GMT

PAN-OS 8.0 was announced last week.

There was a "Colossal Security Event" where it was announced:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Colossal-Security-Event-2017/ct-p/colossal_event

Re: OSPFv3 support for IPv4?

brian_thomas — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:38:39 GMT

This thread is almost 9 years old with no updates. Today, I have the same question. Using version 10.1.14. There are lots of hints that it's there, but nothing in the GUI.

Is there support for multiple address families in PAN-OS? If so, can you point me to where it would be configured?

Thanks

Re: OSPFv3 support for IPv4?

kiwi — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:02:10 GMT

Hi @brian_thomas ,

It doesn't look like PAN-OS supports multiple address families within a single OSPFv3 process.

Source (step 2.3): https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/ngfw/networking/advanced-routing/configure-ospfv3-on-an-advanced-routing-engine

"Assign a Router ID to OPSFv3 for the logical router, which is typically an IPv4 address (even though OSPFv3 is for IPv6 addressing), to ensure the Router ID is unique"

Kind regards,

-Kim.