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Table 110 Configuration > Network > Interface > Bridge > Add / Edit (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Type This field displays the type of the object.
Value This field displays the IPv6 prefix that the Zyxel Device obtained from an uplink router (Server
is selected) or will advertise to its clients (Client is selected).
Interface When Relay is selected, select this check box and an interface from the drop-down list if
you want to use it as the relay server.
Relay Server When Relay is selected, select this check box and enter the IP address of a DHCPv6 server
as the relay server.
IPv6 Router
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Setting
Enable Router Select this to enable this interface to send router advertisement messages periodically. See
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Advertised Hosts Select this to have the Zyxel Device indicate to hosts to obtain network settings (such as
Get Network
prefix and DNS settings) through DHCPv6.
Configuration
From DHCPv6
Clear this to have the Zyxel Device indicate to hosts that DHCPv6 is not available and they
should use the prefix in the router advertisement message.
Advertised Hosts Select this to have the Zyxel Device indicate to hosts to obtain DNS information through
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DHCPv6.
Configuration
From DHCPv6
Clear this to have the Zyxel Device indicate to hosts that DNS information is not available in
this network.
Router Select the router preference (Low, Medium or High) for the interface. The interface sends
Preference
this preference in the router advertisements to tell hosts what preference they should use
for the Zyxel Device. This helps hosts to choose their default router especially when there are
multiple IPv6 router in the network.
Note: Make sure the hosts also support router preference to make this function
MTU The Maximum Transmission Unit. Type the maximum size of each IPv6 data packet, in bytes,
that can move through this interface. If a larger packet arrives, the Zyxel Device divides it
into smaller fragments.
Hop Limit Enter the maximum number of network segments that a packet can cross before reaching
the destination. When forwarding an IPv6 packet, IPv6 routers are required to decrease the
Hop Limit by 1 and to discard the IPv6 packet when the Hop Limit is 0.
Advertised Prefix Configure this table only if you want the Zyxel Device to advertise a fixed prefix to the
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network.
Add Click this to create an IPv6 prefix address.
Edit Select an entry in this table and click this to modify it.
Remove Select an entry in this table and click this to delete it.
# This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with any entry.
IPv6 Enter the IPv6 network prefix address and the prefix length.
Address/
Prefix Length
The prefix length indicates what the left-most part of the IP address is the same for all
computers in the network, that is, the network address.
Advertised Prefix Use this table to configure the network prefix if you want to use a delegated prefix as the
from DHCPv6
beginning part of the network prefix.
Prefix Delegation
Add Click this to create an entry in this table.
Edit Select an entry in this table and click this to modify it.
Remove Select an entry in this table and click this to delete it.
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