Chapter 8 Home Networking

Table 36 Network Setting > Home Networking > IPv6 LAN Setup (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Send RA

Select this to have the AMG1312-T Series send router advertisement messages to the

on

LAN hosts.

 

Router advertisement is a response to a router solicitation or a periodical multicast

 

advertisement from a router to advertise its presence and other parameters, such as

 

IPv6 prefix and DNS information.

 

Router solicitation is a request from a host to locate a router that can act as the default

 

router and forward packets.

 

Note: The LAN hosts neither generate global IPv6 addresses nor communicate with

 

other networks if you disable this feature.

 

 

Delegate

Select this to have the AMG1312-T Series obtain the M/O (Managed/Other) flag setting

M/O flag

from the service provider or uplink router.

from WAN

 

 

 

Manual

Select this to specify the M/O flag setting manually.

 

 

Managed

Select this to have the AMG1312-T Series indicate to hosts to obtain network settings

config flag

(such as prefix and DNS settings) through DHCPv6.

on

Clear this to have the AMG1312-T Series indicate to hosts that DHCPv6 is not available

 

 

and they should use the prefix in the router advertisement message.

 

 

Other

Select this to have the AMG1312-T Series indicate to hosts to obtain DNS information

config flag

through DHCPv6.

on

Clear this to have the AMG1312-T Series indicate to hosts that DNS information is not

 

 

available in this network.

 

 

Advertisem

Select this to have the Router Advertisement messages the VDSL Router sends specify

ent interval

the allowed interval between Router Advertisement messages.

option on

 

Hop limit

Enter the maximum number of network segments that a packet can cross before

 

reaching the destination. When forwarding an IPv6 packet, IPv6 routers are required to

 

decrease the Hop Limit by 1 and to discard the IPv6 packet when the Hop Limit is 0.

 

Possible value for this field are 0-255.

 

 

Router

Enter the time in seconds that hosts should consider the AMG1312-T Series to be the

Lifetime

default router. Possible values for this field are 0-9000.

 

 

Router

Select the router preference (Low, Medium or High) for the AMG1312-T Series. The

Preference

AMG1312-T Series sends this preference in the router advertisements to tell hosts what

 

preference they should use for the AMG1312-T Series. This helps hosts to choose their

 

default router especially when there are multiple IPv6 router in the network.

 

Note: Make sure the hosts also support router preference to make this function work.

 

 

Reachable

Enter the time in milliseconds that can elapse before a neighbor is detected. Possible

Time (ms)

values for this field are 0-3600000.

 

 

Retrans

Enter the time in milliseconds between neighbor solicitation packet retransmissions.

Timer (ms)

Possible values for this field are 1000-4294967295.

 

 

RA Interval

Enter the time in seconds between router advertisement messages. Possible values for

 

this field are 4-1800.

 

 

Delegate

Select this to have the AMG1312-T Series obtain the MTU setting from the service

MTU from

provider or uplink router.

WAN

 

 

 

Manual

Select this to specify the MTU manually.

 

 

MTU

The Maximum Transmission Unit. Type the maximum size of each IPv6 data packet, in

 

bytes, that can move through this interface. If a larger packet arrives, the AMG1312-T

 

Series divides it into smaller fragments.

 

 

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