Web Management Guide

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Chapter 14
| IP Configuration
Setting the Switch’s IP Address (IP Version 6)
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If a routing protocol is enabled (page 543), you can still define a static route
(page 526) to ensure that traffic to the designated address or subnet passes
through a preferred gateway.
An IPv6 default gateway can only be successfully set when a network
interface that directly connects to the gateway has been configured on the
switch.
An IPv6 address must be configured according to RFC 2373 “IPv6
Addressing Architecture, using 8 colon-separated 16-bit hexadecimal
values. One double colon may be used in the address to indicate the
appropriate number of zeros required to fill the undefined fields.
Web Interface
To configure an IPv6 default gateway for the switch:
1.
Click IP, IPv6 Configuration.
2.
Select Configure Global from the Action list.
3.
Enter the IPv6 default gateway.
4.
Click Apply.
Figure 311: Configuring the IPv6 Default Gateway
Configuring IPv6
Interface Settings
Use the IP > IPv6 Configuration (Configure Interface) page to configure general
IPv6 settings for the selected VLAN, including explicit configuration of a link local
interface address, the MTU size, and neighbor discovery protocol settings for
duplicate address detection and the neighbor solicitation interval.
Command Usage
The switch must be configured with a link-local address. The option to explicitly
enable IPv6 creates a link-local address, but will not generate a global IPv6
address. The global unicast address must be manually configured (see
“Configuring an IPv6 Address” on page 491).
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol supersedes IPv4 Address Resolution Protocol
in IPv6 networks. IPv6 nodes on the same network segment use Neighbor
Discovery to discover each other's presence, to determine each other's link-
layer addresses, to find routers and to maintain reachability information about
the paths to active neighbors. The key parameters used to facilitate this process