LevelOne GTL-2690 - Manual (Page 88)

Basic Management Tasks
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Note About Prefix Length – To specify the prefix length, enter a forward slash
followed by a decimal value indicating how many contiguous bits (starting at the
left) of the address comprise the prefix (i.e., the network portion of the address).
When used with a general network prefix to configure a global unicast address,
this length includes both that specified by the general prefix and any contiguous
prefix bits (starting at the left of the specified address) that exceed the length of
the general prefix. If the prefix length specified by this parameter is shorter than
the general prefix, then the length of the general prefix takes precedence.
• Based on General Prefix – Defines a general prefix for the network segment of
the address (see “Configuring an IPv6 General Network Prefix” on page 4-15).
When configuring a global unicast address based on a general network prefix,
the prefix length includes both that specified by the general prefix and any
number of subsequent prefix bits that exceed the length of the general prefix.
Therefore, depending on the specified prefix length, some of the address bits
entered in the IPv6 Address field may be appended to the general prefix.
However, if the prefix length is shorter than the general prefix, then the length of
the general prefix takes precedence, and some of the address bits entered in the
IPv6 Address field will be ignored.
• Address Type – Defines the address type configured for this interface.
• Link Local – Configures an IPv6 link-local address.
- The address prefix must be FE80.
- You can configure only one link-local address per interface.
- The specified address replaces a link-local address that was automatically
generated for the interface.
• EUI-64 (Extended Universal Identifier) – Configures an IPv6 address for an
interface using an EUI-64 interface ID in the low order 64 bits.
- When using EUI-64 format for the low-order 64 bits in the host portion of the
address, the value entered in the IPv6 Address field includes the network
portion of the address, and the prefix length indicates how many contiguous
bits (starting at the left) of the address comprise the prefix (i.e., the network
portion of the address). Note that the value specified in the IPv6 Address
field may include some of the high-order host bits if the specified prefix
length is less than 64 bits. If the specified prefix length exceeds 64 bits, then
the bits used in the network portion of the address will take precedence over
the interface identifier.
- IPv6 addresses are 16 bytes long, of which the bottom 8 bytes typically form
a unique host identifier based on the device’s MAC address. The EUI-64
specification is designed for devices that use an extended 8-byte MAC
address. For devices that still use a 6-byte MAC address (also known as
EUI-48 format), it must be converted into EUI-64 format by inverting the
universal/local bit in the address and inserting the hexadecimal number
FFFE between the upper and lower three bytes of the MAC address.
For example, if a device had an EUI-48 address of 28-9F-18-1C-82-35, the
global/local bit must first be inverted to meet EUI-64 requirements (i.e., 1 for
globally defined addresses and 0 for locally defined addresses), changing