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Configuring IPv6 Unicast Routing
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the network-layer Internet Protocol intended to repla ce Version 4
(IPv4) in the TCP/IP suite of protocols. This chapter describes how to configure IPv6 unicast routing on
the switch.
For information about configuring IPv4 unicast routing, see Chapter 38, “Configuring IP Unicast
Routing.”For information about configuring IPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping, see
Chapter 24, “Configuring IPv6 MLD Snooping.” For information on configuring IPv6 access control
lists (ACLs) see Chapter 35, “ Configuring IPv6 ACLs.”
To use this feature, the switch or st ack mas ter must be ru nni ng t he advanced IP services feature set. This
feature set includes all IP services features plus IPv6 host and un ica st r outi ng sup por t.
To enable IPv6 routing, you must also configure a switch database management (SDM) te mpla te t o a
dual IPv4 and IPv6 template. See the “SDM Templates” section on page 39-11.
Unless otherwise noted, the term switch refers to a standalone switch and to a switch stack.
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, see the Cisco IOS
documentation referenced in the procedures
This chapter consists of these sections:
“Understanding IPv6” section on page39-1
“Configuring IPv6” section on page 39-12
“Displaying IPv6” section on page 39-24

Understanding IPv6

The primary reason for using IPv6 is to increase Internet global address space to accommoda te the
rapidly increasing number of users and applications that req uire u nique gl obal I P addr es ses. IP v4 uses
32-bit addresses to provide approximately 4 billion available addresses. Large blocks of these ad dresses
are allocated to government agencies and large organizations, and th e number of available IP addresses
is rapidly decreasing. IPv6 incorporates 128-bit source and destination addresses and can provide
significantly more globally unique IP addresses than IPv4.