Configuring Ipv6 Anycast Addresses; Configuring The Management Port For An Ipv6 Automatic Address Configuration; Ipv6 Host Support; Restricting Snmp Access To An Ipv6 Node - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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Configuring the management port for an IPv6 automatic address configuration

The link-local keyword indicates that the router interface should use the manually configured
link-local address instead of the automatically computed link-local address.

Configuring IPv6 anycast addresses

In IPv6, an anycast address is an address for a set of interfaces belonging to different nodes.
Sending a packet to an anycast address results in the delivery of the packet to the closest interface
configured with the anycast address.
An anycast address looks similar to a unicast address, because it is allocated from the unicast
address space. If you assign an IPv6 unicast address to multiple interfaces, it is an anycast
address. On the Brocade device, you configure an interface assigned an anycast address to
recognize the address as an anycast address.
For example, the following commands configure an anycast address on interface 2/1.
BigIron RX(config)# int e 2/1
BigIron RX(config-if-e100-2/1)# ipv6 address 2002::6/64 anycast
Syntax: ipv6 address <ipv6-prefix>/<prefix-length> [anycast]
IPv6 anycast addresses are described in detail in RFC 1884. Refer to RFC 2461 for a description of
how the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery mechanism handles anycast addresses.
Configuring the management port for an IPv6 automatic
address configuration
You can have the management port configured to automatically obtain an IPv6 address. This
process is the same for any other port and is described in detail in the
site-local IPv6 address with an automatically computed EUI-64 interface ID"

IPv6 host support

You can configure the device to be an IPv6 host. An IPv6 host has IPv6 addresses on its interfaces,
but does not have IPv6 routing enabled on it. This feature support is available on devices running
the Layer 2, base Layer 3, or full Layer 3 software image.
This section lists the supported and unsupported IPv6 host features

Restricting SNMP access to an IPv6 node

You can restrict SNMP access (which includes IronView Network Manager) to the device to the IPv6
host whose IP address you specify. To do so, enter a command such as the following:
BigIron RX(config)# snmp-client ipv6 2001:efff:89::23
Syntax: snmp-client ipv6 <ipv6-address>
The <ipv6-address> you specify must be in hexadecimal format using 16-bit values between colons
as documented in RFC 2373.
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