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Introduction to IPv6

Configuration and Management

The next three sections outline the IPv6 features supported in software release K.13.01.

Configuration and Management

This section outlines the configurable management features supporting IPv6 operation on your ProCurve IPv6-ready switch.

Management Features

Software release K.13.01 provides host-based IPv6 features that enable the switches covered in this guide to be managed from an IPv6 management station and to operate in both IPv6 and IPv4/IPv6 network environments.

Software release K.13.01 does not include IPv6 routing, but interoperates with routers that support IPv6 and IPv4/IPv6 router applications.

IPv6 Addressing

The switch offers these IPv6 address configuration features:

SLAAC (stateless automatic address configuration)

DHCPv6 (stateful automatic address configuration)

static address configuration

SLAAC (Stateless Automatic Address Configuration)

Enabling IPv6 on a VLAN automatically enables configuration of a link-local unicast IPv6 address on the VLAN. (No DHCPv6 server is needed.) This address begins with the hexadecimal prefix fe80, which is prepended to the interface identifier part of the address. (The interface identifier is generated from the MAC address of the VLAN itself, using the 64-bit extended unique identifier (EUI) method.) This enables the IPv6 nodes on the VLAN to configure and manage the switch.

Enabling IPv6 address autoconfiguration on a VLAN automatically enables automatic configuration of global unicast addresses on the VLAN. After enabling autoconfiguration, a router advertisement (RA) containing an assigned global address prefix must be received on the VLAN from an IPv6 router on the same VLAN. The resulting address is a combination of the prefix

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