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Brocade ICX 6650 Administration Guide 99
53-1002600-01
Chapter
5
IPv6 Configuration on Brocade ICX 6650 Switch
In this chapter
•Full Layer 3 IPv6 feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
•IPv6 addressing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
•IPv6 CLI command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
•IPv6 host address on a Layer 2 switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
•Configuring basic IPv6 connectivity on a Layer 3 switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
•IPv6 management on Brocade ICX 6650 devices (IPv6 host support) . . . 112
•Static IPv6 route configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
•IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
•ECMP load sharing for IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
•IPv6 ICMP feature configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
•IPv6 neighbor discovery configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
•IPv6 MTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
•Static neighbor entries configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
•Limiting the number of hops an IPv6 packet can traverse. . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
•IPv6 source routing security enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
•Clearing global IPv6 information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
•Displaying global IPv6 information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Table 21 lists the Brocade ICX 6650 switch and the IPv6 features the switch supports. These
features are supported full Layer 3 software images, except where explicitly noted.
TABLE 21 Supported IPv6 features on Brocade ICX 6650 devices
Feature Brocade
ICX 6650
Global IPv6 address Yes
IPv6 access list
1
Yes
IPv6 access-list (management ACLs) Yes
Site-local IPv6 address Yes
Link-local IPv6 address Yes
IPv4 and IPv6 host stacks Yes
IPv6 copy
1
Yes
IPv6 ncopy
1
Yes
IPv6 debug Yes