IPv6 Addressing Commands
This chapter contains the following sections:
• ipv6 default-gateway, on page 1
• management vlan ipv6-address, on page 2
• management vlan ipv6-address-autoconfig, on page 2
• management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp, on page 3
• show ipv6, on page 4
• show ipv6 dhcp, on page 4
ipv6 default-gateway
To define an IPv6 default gateway, use the ipv6 default-gateway Global Configuration mode command.
Syntax
ipv6 default-gateway ipv6-address
Parameters
ipv6-address—The IPv6 address of the next hop that can be used to reach the required network.
Default Configuration
No default gateway is defined.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
Configuring a new default gateway without deleting the previous configured information overwrites the
previous configuration.
A configured default gateway has a higher precedence over an automatically advertised by using a router
advertisement message.
Precedence takes effect after the configured default gateway is reachable.
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management vlan ipv6-address
Reachability state is not verified automatically by the neighbor discovery protocol. Router reachability can
be confirmed by either receiving a Router Advertisement message or containing the router's MAC address.
Another option to force the reachability confirmation is to ping the router link-local address (this will initiate
the neighbor discovery process).
If the egress interface is not specified, the default interface is selected. Specifying interface zone=0 is equal
to not defining an egress interface.
Example
switchxxxxxx(config)# ipv6 default-gateway fe80::abcd
management vlan ipv6-address
To configure an IPv6 address for the management VLAN, use the management vlan ipv6-address Global
Configuration mode command.
Syntax
management vlan ipv6-address ipv6-address prefix-length prefix-length
Parameters
ipv6-address—The IPv6 network assigned to the interface. This argument must be in the form documented
in RFC 2373 where the address is specified in hexadecimal using 16-bit values between colons.
prefix-length prefix-length—Specifies the length of the IPv6 prefix. A decimal value that indicates how
many of the high-order contiguous bits of the address comprise the prefix (the network portion of the address).
(Range: 0 to 128)
Default Configuration
No IPv6 address is defined for the management VLAN.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
If the value specified for the prefix-length argument is greater than 64 bits, the prefix bits have precedence
over the interface ID.
Example
switchxxxxxx(config)# management vlan ipv6-address 3000::123 prefix-length 64
management vlan ipv6-address-autoconfig
To enable IPv6 address autoconfiguration on the switch, use the management vlan ipv6-address-autoconfig
Global Configuration mode command. Addresses are configured depending on the prefixes received in the
Router Advertisement messages.
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management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp
To disable IPv6 address autoconfiguration on the switch, use the no form of this command.
Syntax
management vlan ipv6-address-autoconfig
no management vlan ipv6-address-autoconfig
Parameters
N/A
Default Configuration
IPv6 address autoconfiguration is enabled on the switch. No IPv6 address is assigned by default.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
When IPv6 address autoconfiguration is enabled, the router solicitation ND procedure is initiated to discover
a router and assign IP addresses to the switch, based on the advertised on-link prefixes.
When disabling IPv6 address autoconfiguration, automatically generated addresses that were assigned to the
switch are removed.
The default state of IPv6 address autoconfiguration is enabled.
Example
switchxxxxxx(config)# management vlan ipv6-address-autoconfig
management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp
To acquire an IPv6 address on an interface from the DHCPv6 server, use the management vlan
ipv6-address-dhcp Global Configuration mode command.
To remove the IPv6 address from the interface, use the no form of this command.
Syntax
management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp
no management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp
Parameters
N/A
Default Configuration
N/A
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show ipv6
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
The management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp Global Configuration command allows the switch to dynamically
learn its IPv6 address by using DHCP.
Example
switchxxxxxx(config)# management vlan ipv6-address-dhcp
show ipv6
To display the IPv6 configuration of the switch, use the show ipv6 Privileged EXEC mode command.
Syntax
show ipv6
Parameters
N/A
Default Configuration
N/A
Command Mode
Privileged EXEC mode
Example
switchxxxxxx# show ipv6
IPv6 DHCP Configuration : Disabled
IPv6 DHCP DUID :
IPv6 Auto Configuration : Enabled
IPv6 Link Local Address : fe80::2e36:f8ff:fe4b:e227/64
IPv6 static Address : ::/0
IPv6 static Gateway Address : ::
IPv6 in use Address : fe80::2e36:f8ff:fe4b:e227/64
show ipv6 dhcp
To display the IPv6 DHCP parameters configured on the switch, use the show ipv6 dhcp Privileged EXEC
mode command.
Syntax
show ipv6 dhcp
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Parameters
N/A
Command Mode
Privileged EXEC mode
Example
switchxxxxxx(config)# show ipv6 dhcp
DHCPv6 Status : enabled
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