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Ipv6 addressing, Ipv6 addressing overview, Chapter 11 – Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Routing Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) User Manual

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IPv6 Addressing

IPv6 addressing overview

Table 93

displays the individual devices and the IPv6 Addressing features they support.

This chapter includes overview information about the following topics:

IPv6 addressing.

The IPv6 stateless auto-configuration feature, which enables a host on a local link to
automatically configure its interfaces with new and globally unique IPv6 addresses associated
with its location.

A limitation of IPv4 is its 32-bit addressing format, which is unable to satisfy potential increases in
the number of users, geographical needs, and emerging applications. To address this limitation,
IPv6 introduces a new 128-bit addressing format.

An IPv6 address is composed of 8 fields of 16-bit hexadecimal values separated by colons (:).

Figure 34

shows the IPv6 address format.

TABLE 93

Supported IPv6 addressing features

Features supported

Brocade
NetIron
XMR
Series

Brocade
MLX Series

Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
BASE
package

Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
ME_PREM
package

Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
L3_PREM
package

Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Base
package

Brocade
NetIron CER
2000
Series
Advanced
Services
package

IPv6 Addressing

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Address
Unicast

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Address
Multicast

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Address
Anycast

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Stateless
auto-configuration

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Address in the
Configuration

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes