It took me far to long to find out how to config this, so I'm sharing it to be more searching on the Internets.

Scenario:

- NXOS BGP 'upsteam' / 'north bound' peer sharing the default route only
- Linux box runs Quagga sharing it's /56 routable behind it

Nexus Conf

feature bgp

router bgp 65170
  router-id 69.69.69.70
  address-family ipv6 unicast
    network 0::/0
  neighbor 69::69 remote-as 65169
    address-family ipv6 unicast

Quagga Conf

bgp.conf:

router bgp 65169
 bgp router-id 69.69.69.69

 neighbor 69::1 remote-as 65170

 address-family ipv6 unicast
  network 2400:0000:0000:6900::/56

 neighbor 69::1 activate

log file /var/log/bgpd.log
log stdout