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Chapter 13: IPv4 and IPv6 Management Addresses
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Assigning an IPv6 Management Address and Default Gateway
This section covers the following topics:
“Adding an IPv6 Management Address” next
“Adding an IPv6 Default Gateway Address” on page 267
“Deleting an IPv6 Management Address and Default Gateway” on
page 268
“Displaying an IPv6 Management Address and Default Gateway” on
page 269
Adding an IPv6
Management
Address
The command to assign the switch an IPv6 management address is the
IPv6 ADDRESS command. As with the IPv4 address command, this
command has to be performed in the VLAN Configuration mode of the
VLAN to which the address is to be assigned. If the VLAN does not
already exist, you have to create it first. For instructions, refer to Chapter
47, “Port-based and Tagged VLANs” on page 687. If the switch already
has an IPv4 address, the IPv6 address must be assigned to the same
VLAN as that address.
Here is the format of the command:
ipv6 address
ipaddress/mask
The IPADDRESS parameter is the management IPv6 address for the
switch, entered in this format:
nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn
Where N is a hexadecimal digit from 0 to F. The eight groups of digits are
separated by colons. Groups where all four digits are ‘0’ can be omitted.
Leading ‘0’s in groups can also be omitted. For example, the following
IPv6 addresses are equivalent:
12c4:421e:09a8:0000:0000:0000:00a4:1c50
12c4:421e:9a8::a4:1c50
The MASK parameter is a decimal number that represents the number of
bits, from left to right, that constitute the network portion of the address.
For example, an address whose network designator consists of the first
eight bytes would need a mask of 64 bits.