HP Designjet T2300 eMFP Series - Using Your Product

Using IPv6

Your product supports almost all network connectivity features using IPv6, just as it does using IPv4. To

make full use of IPv6, you may need to connect your product to an IPv6 network in which there are IPv6

routers and servers.

In most IPv6 networks, the product will configure itself automatically as follows, and no user

configuration is necessary:

1. The product assigns itself a link-local IPv6 address (which starts with “fe80::”).

2. The product assigns itself stateless IPv6 addresses as indicated to it by any IPv6 routers on the

network.

3. If no stateless IPv6 addresses can be assigned, the product will try to obtain IPv6 addresses using

DHCPv6. It will also do so if the routers instruct it to do so.

The stateless and DHCPv6 IPv6 addresses can be used to access the product, and in most IPv6

networks this will be appropriate.

The link-local IPv6 address works only in the local subnet. Although it is possible to access the product

using this address, it is not recommended.

It is possible to assign a manual IPv6 address to the product, using the front panel or the Embedded

Web Server. It is also possible to disable IPv6 completely in the product. However, it is not possible to

disable IPv4 in the product, and therefore it is not possible to configure the product as IPv6-only.

NOTE: In typical IPv6 use, your product will have multiple IPv6 addresses, although it has only one

IPv4 address.

TIP: You will generally find it easier to use IPv4 unless you have a specific need to use IPv6.

Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and the new HP Printing and Imaging

devices will have IPv6 enabled by default. For further information on IPv6, see

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00840100/c00840100.pdf. This

document discusses how name resolution plays a fundamental role in Dual-Stack transition methods.

Using the name resolution algorithm in Windows Vista, the document goes through various network

environments and studies how the introduction of routable IPv6 addresses will affect network

applications. It also discusses DHCPv6, SLAAC and the impact to DNS, and makes some

recommendations.

Using IPSec

Your product supports IPSec.

However, successful IPSec configuration requires advanced network expertise, and is beyond the scope

of this document. For IPSec to work, the product’s IPSec configuration must exactly match that of the

other devices in your network. Any discrepancy will prevent communication with your product until the

configuration is corrected or IPSec is disabled. For more information on IPsec configuration, download

the file IPsec_Admin_Guide.pdf from

http://www.hp.com/go/T2300/manuals.

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Connect the product to your network