Lan; Ipv6 Autoconfig - NetComm NF8AC User Manual

LAN

IPv6 Autoconfig

The IPv6 LAN Auto Configuration page allows you to configure settings pertaining to the IPv6 DHCP server.
OPTION
Enable Unique Local
Addresses and Prefix
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Randomly Generate
Statically Configure
IPv6 LAN Applications
Enable DHCPv6 Server and
RADVD
Stateless
Stateful
Enable MLD Snooping
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Enable the use of unique local addresses. The router will advertise the IPv6 prefix to new devices on the
network.
Randomly generates the unique local addresses and the prefix.
Enter a static IPv6 address for the router if one has been assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider.
Enable IPv6 DHCP server
The Router Advertisement Daemon (radvd) is an open-source software product that implements link-local
advertisements of IPv6 router addresses and IPv6 routing prefixes using the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)
as specified in RFC 2461. The Router Advertisement Daemon is used by system administrators in stateless
auto-configuration methods of network hosts on Internet Protocol version 6 networks.
When IPv6 hosts configure their network interfaces, they broadcast router solicitation (RS) requests onto the
network to discover available routers. The radvd software answers requests with router advertisement (RA)
messages. In addition, radvd periodically broadcasts RA packets to the attached link to update network hosts.
The router advertisement messages contain the routing prefix used on the link, the link maximum transmission
unit (MTU), and the address of the responsible default router.
IPv6 hosts can configure themselves automatically when connected to a routed IPv6 network using Internet
Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) router discovery messages. This type of configuration is suitable
for small organizations and individuals. It allows each host to determine its address from the contents of
received user advertisements. It makes use of the IEEE EUI-64 standard to define the network ID portion of the
address.
This configuration requires some human intervention as it makes use of the Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) for installation and administration of nodes over a network. The DHCPv6 server
maintains a list of nodes and the information about their state to know the availability of each IP address from
the range specified by the network administrator.
Select whether to enable or disable MLD Snooping on the router. The Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
snooping function constrains the flooding of IPv6 multicast traffic on VLANs on the router.
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