ECS4660-28F_Management Guide-R03

C HAPTER 16 | IP Configuration
Setting the Switch’s IP Address (IP Version 6)
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A node is also required to compute and join the associated solicited-
node multicast addresses for every unicast and anycast address it is
assigned. IPv6 addresses that differ only in the high-order bits, e.g.
due to multiple high-order prefixes associated with different
aggregations, will map to the same solicited-node address, thereby
reducing the number of multicast addresses a node must join. In this
example, FF02::1:FF90:0/104 is the solicited-node multicast address
which is formed by taking the low-order 24 bits of the address and
appending those bits to the prefix.
Note that the solicited-node multicast address (link-local scope FF02) is
used to resolve the MAC addresses for neighbor nodes since IPv6 does
not support the broadcast method used by the Address Resolution
Protocol in IPv4.
These additional addresses are displayed by the CLI (see "show ip
interface" on page 1651).
◆ Configuration Mode – Indicates if this address was automatically
generated or manually configured.
WEB INTERFACE
To show the configured IPv6 addresses:
1. Click IP, IPv6 Configuration.
2. Select Show IPv6 Address from the Action list.
3. Select a VLAN from the list.
Figure 409: Showing Configured IPv6 Addresses