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Fortress ES-Series CLI Guide: Networking and Radio Configuration
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Change the Mesh Point’s IPv6 network settings with set
networkv6
with valid switches and arguments in any order and
combination:
# set networkv6 -auto y|n -ip <IPv6GlobalAddr>
-pl <
prefix_length
>
-gw <IPv6DfltGtwyAddr> -gm <DfltGtwyMetric>
When automatic addressing is at its default of enabled
(
-auto y), and there is an IPv6 router on the network
configured to provide the global prefix, the Mesh Point will
automatically configure a compatible IPv6 global address for
itself. If additional IPv6 routers are present, auto-addressing
will configure additional IPv6 global addresses.
If you choose to manually configure IPv6 settings, these
include:
NOTE: Fortress’s
FastPath Mesh
functionality includes
independent IPv6
addressing, which can
supply additional IPv6
ULAs (Unique Local
Addresses, refer to Sec-
tion 3.2.2).
-auto (auto addressing) - configures the Mesh Point to
learn IPv6 global prefixes from network routers (
y
, the
default) or to use only a locally established global address
(
n
).
-ip (configurable global address) - manually establishes an
IPv6 global network address—which must be within the
IPv6 global scope—for the Mesh Point’s management
interface.
-pl (configurable prefix length) - specifies the bit length of
the prefix portion of the Mesh Point’s configurable global
address.
-gw (configurable gateway) - manually provides the IP
address of the default gateway for the Mesh Point’s IPv6
subnet. The default gateway address must be a compatible
link-local or global address (i.e., lie within the same prefix
as either the global address or the link-local address).
If no default gateway is necessary (i.e., you are configuring
the Mesh Point for use on a private network unconnected to
other OSI Layer 3 networks), you need not configure an
IPv6 default gateway.
-gm (configurable gateway metric) - establishes the IPv6
metric, or relative routing cost, for the configurable
gateway, allowing it to be assigned a preference relative to
the automatically assigned default gateways.
You must be logged on to an
administrator-level account to
change configuration settings (refer to Section 2.2).
3.5.3 DNS Client Settings
The Mesh Point can be configured as a standard Domain
Name System client.