Ipv6 Support - ZyXEL Communications GS1900-8 User Manual

direct ly t alk t o or hear from st at ions t hat are not in t he sam e group( s) unless such t raffic first goes
t hrough a rout er.
For m ore inform at ion on VLANs, refer t o
1.1.3.1 Tag-based VLAN Example
Port s in t he sam e VLAN group share t he sam e fram e broadcast dom ain, t hus increasing net work
perform ance by reducing broadcast t raffic. VLAN groups can be m odified at any t im e by adding,
m oving or changing port s wit hout any re- cabling.
Shared resources such as a server can be used by all port s in t he sam e VLAN as t he server. I n t he
following figure only port s t hat need access t o t he server need t o be part of VLAN 1. Port s can
belong t o ot her VLAN groups t oo.
Figure 3 Shared Server Using VLAN Exam ple

1.1.4 IPv6 Support

I Pv6 ( I nt ernet Prot ocol version 6) , is designed t o enhance I P address size and feat ures. The
increase in I Pv6 address size t o 128 bit s ( from t he 32- bit I Pv4 address) allows up t o 3.4 x 10
addresses. At t he t im e of writ ing, t he Swit ch support s t he following feat ures.
• St at ic address assignm ent and st at eless aut o- confi g urat ion
• Neighbor Discovery Prot ocol ( a prot ocol used t o discover ot her I Pv6 devices in a net work)
• Rem ot e Managem ent using PI NG, SNMP , HTTP and TFTP services
• I CMPv6 t o report errors encount e red in packet processing and perform diagnost ic funct ions, such
as "PI NG"
• I Pv4/ I Pv6 dual st ack; t he Swit ch can run I Pv4 and I Pv6 at t he sam e t im e
• DHCPv6 client
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