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Enable — Enables IPv6 router advertisements on the router.
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M Flag — Sets the router advertisement "Managed address
configuration" flag. When set, the router will use DHCPv6 to obtain
stateful addresses.
O Flag — Sets the router advertisement "other stateful configuration"
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flag. When set, the router will attempt to acquire other non-address
configuration information (such as a default gateway or DNS).
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Max Interval — The amount of time that a remote IPv6 node is
considered reachable.
Min Interval — The interval between transmitting IPv6 neighbor
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solicitation messages.
Prefix Mode — Enables manual or automatic configuration of IPv6
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addresses on the router.
Auto — Enables automatic configuration of IPv6 addresses on
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interfaces and enables IPv6 functionality on the router. The network
portion of the address is based on prefixes received in IPv6 router
advertisement messages, and the host portion is automatically
generated using the modified EUI-64 form of the interface identifier
(that is, the router's MAC address).
Manual — If auto-configuration is not selected, then an address
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must be manually configured using the fields described below.
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Prefix Address — The IPv6 address prefix sent in router
advertisements.
Prefix Length — The length of the IPv6 address prefix sent in router
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advertisements. For IPv6 unicast addresses, this is set to 64.
Preferred Time — The time over which the configured address is
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preferred.
Valid Time — The time over which the configured address is valid.
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DHCP
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DHCPv6 Mode — The DHCPv6 mode setting.
None — DHCPv6 is disabled.
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Manual — If auto-configuration is not selected, then an IPv6
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address pool must be manually configured.
Auto — Enables automatic assignment of IPv6 addresses on the
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router. The network portion of the address is based on prefixes
received in IPv6 router advertisement messages, and the host
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