Defining an IPv6 Interface
The IPv6 Interfaces page displays the switch’s IPv6 interface parameters and enables configuring this interface. An IPv6 interface can be configured on a port, a LAG, VLAN, or ISATAP tunnel interface. The switch supports one IPv6 interface as an IPv6 end device.
A tunnel interface is configured with an IPv6 address based on the settings defined in the IPv6 Tunnel page.
To configure IPv6 interfaces:
- Click Administration > Management Interface (Layer 2) > IPv6 Interfaces.
The IPv6 Interface page opens.
This page displays the IPv6 interfaces already configured.
- Click Add to add a new interface on which interface IPv6 is enabled.
- The Add IPv6 Interface page opens.
- Enter the values.
- IPv6 Interface--Select a specific port, LAG, VLAN, or ISATAP tunnel.
- Number of DAD Attempts--Enter the number of consecutive neighbor solicitation messages that are sent while Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) is performed on the interface’s Unicast IPv6 addresses. DAD verifies the uniqueness of a new Unicast IPv6 address before it is assigned. New addresses remain in a tentative state during DAD verification. Entering 0 in this field disables duplicate address detection processing on the specified interface. Entering 1 in this field indicates a single transmission without follow-up transmissions.
- IPv6 Address Auto Configuration--Enable automatic address configuration from the DHCP server. If enabled, the switch supports IPv6 stateless address auto configuration of site local and global IP address from the IPv6 router advertisement received on the interface. The switch does not support stateful address auto configuration.
- Send ICMPv6 Messages--Enable generating unreachable destination messages.
- Click Apply to enable IPv6 processing on the selected interface. Regular IPv6 interfaces have the following addresses automatically configured:
- Click IPv6 Address Table to manually assign IPv6 addresses to the interface, if required. This page is described in the Defining IPv6 Addresses section.