Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series - Management

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Software Configuration Guide—Release IOS XE 3.6.0E and IOS 15.2(2)E
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Chapter 55 Support for IPv6
About IPv6
You can find information about these features at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipv6/configuration/guide/ip6-qos.html
Management
The following management features are supported for IPv6 on the Catalyst 4500 series switch:
• Ping
• Syslog
• Netconf support
• SNMP
• SOAP
• HTTP(s)
You can find information about these features at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipv6/configuration/guide/ip6-mng_apps.html
Multicast
Traditional IP communication allows a host to send packets to a single host (unicast transmission) or to
all hosts (broadcast transmission). IPv6 multicast, allows a host to send a single data stream to a subset
of all hosts (group transmission) simultaneously.
The following multicast features are supported for IPv6 on the Catalyst 4500 series switch:
• Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) protocol, versions 1 and 2
You can find information about IPv6 MLD Snooping at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/12.2/53SG/configuration/mldsnoop.h
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• PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)
• PIM Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM)
• Scope boundaries
• MLD access group
• PIM embedded Rendezvous Point (RP) support
• Static multicast routing (mroute)
• Explicit tracking of receivers
• Bootstrap routers (BSR)
• MLD snooping
You can find information about these features at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipv6/configuration/guide/ip6-multicast.html