Chapter 6 LAN Setup

 

Table 33 LAN > IPv6

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Router

Router advertisement is a response to a router solicitation or a

 

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periodical multicast advertisement from a router to advertise its

 

Setup

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.

 

 

 

 

Send Router

Select this option to have the P-2812HNU-51c send router

 

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advertisement messages to the LAN hosts.

 

 

Note: The LAN hosts neither generate global IPv6 addresses nor

 

 

communicate with other networks if you disable this feature.

 

 

 

 

DHCPv6 Setup

 

 

 

 

 

Enable DHCPv6

Select this option to have the P-2812HNU-51c act as a DHCP server to

 

Server

assign and pass IPv6 network addresses, prefixes and DNS server

 

 

information to its DHCP clients.

 

 

 

 

MLD Setup

Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) allows an IPv6 switch or router to

 

 

discover the presence of MLD hosts who wish to receive multicast

 

 

packets and the IP addresses of multicast groups the hosts want to

 

 

join on its network.

 

 

 

 

Enable MLD

Select this option to activate MLD snooping on the P-2812HNU-51c.

 

Snooping

This allows the P-2812HNU-51c to check MLD packets passing through

 

 

it and learn the multicast group membership. It helps reduce multicast

 

 

traffic.

 

 

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the P-2812HNU-51c.

 

 

 

6.5 Technical Reference

The following section contains additional technical information about the P- 2812HNU-51c features described in this chapter.

 

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