Reference Guide

224 IP Addressing
• Prefix Address —The IPv6 network. This argument must be in the
form documented in RFC 4293 where the address is specified in
hexadecimal—using 16-bit values between colons.
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Prefix-Length —The length of the IPv6 prefix. A decimal value
that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the
address comprise the prefix (the network portion of the address).
A slash mark must precede the decimal value
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Prefix Advertisement —Select to advertise this prefix.
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Valid Lifetime(1 - 4294967295) —Remaining length of time, in
seconds, that this prefix will continue to be valid, i.e., time until
invalidation. The address generated from an invalidated prefix should
not appear as the destination or source address of a packet.
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Infinite —Select this value to set the field to 4,294,967,295,
which represents infinity.
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User Defined —Enter a value.
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Preferred Lifetime (1-Valid-Lifetime) —The remaining length of
time, in seconds, that this prefix will continue to be preferred. After
this time has passed, the prefix should no longer be used as a source
address in new communications, but packets received on such an
interface are processed as expected. The preferred-lifetime must not
be larger than the valid-lifetime.
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Infinite —Select this value to set the field to 4,294,967,295, which
represents infinity.
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User Defined —Enter a value.
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Auto Configuration —Enable automatic configuration of IPv6
addresses using stateless auto configuration on an interface and enable
IPv6 processing on the interface. Addresses are configured depending
on the prefixes received in Router Advertisement messages
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Prefix Status —Select one of the following options:
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Onlink —Configures the specified prefix as on-link. Nodes
sending traffic to addresses that contain the specified prefix
consider the destination to be locally reachable on the link. An
onlink prefix is inserted into the routing table as a connected
prefix (L-bit set).