Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Administration Guide

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Chapter 55 Support for IPv6
About IPv6
• DHCP, page 55-3
• Security, page 55-3
• QoS, page 55-3
• Management, page 55-4
• Multicast, page 55-4
• Static Routes, page 55-5
• First-Hop Redundancy Protocols, page 55-5
• Unicast Routing, page 55-5
• Tunneling, page 55-7
IPv6 Addressing and Basic Connectivity
The switch supports only IPv6 unicast addresses. It does not support site-local unicast addresses or
multicast addresses.
The IPv6 128-bit addresses are represented as a series of eight 16-bit hexadecimal fields separated by
colons in the format: n:n:n:n:n:n:n:n. it is an example of an IPv6 address:
2031:0000:130F:0000:0000:09C0:080F:130B
The leading zeros in each field are optional, implementation is easier without them. it is the same address
without leading zeros:
2031:0:130F:0:0:9C0:80F:130B
You can also use two colons (::) to represent successive hexadecimal fields of zeros, but you can use this
short version only once in each address:
2031:0:130F::09C0:080F:130B
The switch supports the following features:
• IPv6 address types: Anycast
• IPv6 default router preferences
• IPv6 MTU path discovery
• Neighbor discovery duplicate address detection
• Cisco Discovery Protocol — IPv6 address family support for neighbor information
• ICMPv6 redirect
• ICMP rate limiting
• DNS lookups over an IPv6 transport
• uRPF
• ICMPv6
• AAAA DNS lookups over an IPv4 transport
You can find information about these features at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipv6/configuration/guide/ip6-addrg_bsc_con.html

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E