Chapter 7 Interfaces

Table 58 Configuration > Network > Interface > Bridge > Create Virtual Interface (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Advertised Hosts

Select this to have the ZyWALL indicate to hosts to obtain network settings (such as

Get Network

prefix and DNS settings) through DHCPv6.

Configuration

 

From DHCPv6

Clear this to have the ZyWALL indicate to hosts that DHCPv6 is not available and they

 

 

should use the prefix in the router advertisement message.

 

 

Advertised Hosts

Select this to have the ZyWALL indicate to hosts to obtain DNS information through

Get Other

DHCPv6.

Configuration

 

From DHCPv6

Clear this to have the ZyWALL indicate to hosts that DNS information is not available in

 

 

this network.

 

 

Router

Select the router preference (Low, Medium or High) for the interface. The interface

Preference

sends this preference in the router advertisements to tell hosts what preference they

 

should use for the ZyWALL. 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.

 

 

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 ZyWALL

 

divides it into smaller fragments.

 

 

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.

 

 

Advertised

Configure this table only if you want the ZyWALL to advertise a fixed prefix to the

Prefix Table

network.

 

 

Add

Click this to create an IPv6 prefix address.

 

 

Edit

Select an entry in this table and click this to modify it.

 

 

Remove

Select an entry in this table and click this to delete it.

 

 

#

This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with any entry.

 

 

IPv6

Enter the IPv6 network prefix address and the prefix length.

Address/

 

Prefix Length

The prefix length indicates what the left-most part of the IP address is the same for all

 

computers in the network, that is, the network address.

 

 

Advertised

Use this table to configure the network prefix if you want to use a delegated prefix as

Prefix from

the beginning part of the network prefix.

DHCPv6 Prefix

 

Delegation

 

 

 

Add

Click this to create an entry in this table.

 

 

Edit

Select an entry in this table and click this to modify it.

 

 

Remove

Select an entry in this table and click this to delete it.

 

 

#

This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with any entry.

 

 

Delegated

Select the DHCPv6 request object to use for generating the network prefix for the

Prefix

network.

 

 

Suffix

Enter the ending part of the IPv6 network address plus a slash (/) and the prefix

Address

length. The ZyWALL will append it to the selected delegated prefix. The combined

 

address is the network prefix for the network.

 

For example, you got a delegated prefix of 2003:1234:5678/48. You want to divide it

 

into 2003:1234:5678:1111/64 for this interface and 2003:1234:5678:2222/64 for

 

another interface. You can use ::1111/64 and ::2222/64 for the suffix address

 

respectively. But if you do not want to divide the delegated prefix into subnetworks,

 

enter ::0/48 here, which keeps the same prefix length (/48) as the delegated prefix.

 

 

 

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