• Automatically or manually conguring a link-local address for an interface.
• Conguring IPv6 anycast addresses
Conguring a global or site-local IPv6 address on an interface
Conguring a global or site-local IPv6 address on an interface does the following:
• Automatically congures an interface ID (a link-local address), if specied.
• Enables IPv6 on that interface.
Additionally, the congured interface automatically joins the following required multicast groups for that link:
• Solicited-node multicast group FF02:0:0:0:0:1:FF00::/104 for each unicast address assigned to the interface.
• Solicited-node for subnet anycast address for each unicast assigned address
• Solicited-node for anycast address FF02:0:0:0:0:1:FF00::0000
• All-nodes link-local multicast group FF02::1
• All-routers link-local multicast group FF02::2
The neighbor discovery feature sends messages to these multicast groups. For more information, refer to IPv6 neighbor discovery
conguration on page 169.
Conguring a global or site-local IPv6 address with a manually congured interface ID
To congure a global or site-local IPv6 address, including a manually congured interface ID, for an interface, enter commands such as
the following.
device(config)#interface ethernet 1/3/1
device(config-if-e1000-1/3/1)#ipv6 address 2001:DB8:12D:1300:240:D0FF:
FE48:4672:/64
These commands congure the global prex 2001:DB8:12d:1300::/64 and the interface ID ::240:D0FF:FE48:4672, and enable IPv6
on Ethernet interface 1/3/1.
Syntax: ipv6 address ipv6-prex/prex-length
You must specify the ipv6-prex parameter in hexadecimal using 16-bit values between colons as documented in RFC 2373.
You must specify the prex-length parameter as a decimal value. A slash mark (/) must follow the ipv6-prex parameter and precede the
prex-length parameter.
To congure a /122 address on a VE enter commands similar to the following.
device(config-vlan-11)#int ve11
device(config-vif-11)#ipv6 add 2001:DB8::1/122
device(config-vif-11)#sh ipv6 int
Routing Protocols : R - RIP O - OSPF
Interface Status Routing Global Unicast Address
VE 11 up/up 2001:DB8::1/122
device(config-vif-11)#sh ipv6 route
IPv6 Routing Table - 1 entries:
Type Codes: C - Connected, S - Static, R - RIP, O - OSPF, B - BGP
OSPF Sub Type Codes: O - Intra, Oi - Inter, O1 - Type1 external, O2 - Type2 external
Type IPv6 Prefix Next Hop Router Interface Dis/Metric
C 2001:DB8::/122 :: ve 11 0/0
Conguring basic IPv6 connectivity on a Layer 3 switch
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