As with any IPv6 routing feature you must first enable ipv6 unicast-routing before configuring Multiprotocol BGP.

For the minimum required IOS version for multiprotocol BGP features please refer to:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/

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