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Adding an ipv6 management address – Allied Telesis AT-8100 Series User Manual

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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 309

“Deleting an IPv6 Management Address and Default Gateway” on
page 310

“Displaying an IPv6 Management Address and Default Gateway” on
page 311

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
60, “Port-based and Tagged VLANs” on page 901. 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.