Administrator Guide

• Router discovery: Hosts can locate routers residing on a link
• Prefix discovery: Hosts can discover address prefixes for the link.
• Parameter discovery
• Address autoconfiguration — configuration of addresses for an interface
• Address resolution — mapping from IP address to link-layer address
• Next-hop determination• Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD): Determine that a neighbor is no longer
reachable on the link
• Duplicate Address Detection (DAD): Allow a node to check whether a proposed address is already in use.
• Redirect: The router can inform a node about a better first-hop.
Use the ipv6 neighbor command to manually configure the IPv6 address of a neighbor to be discovered by the
switch.
NOTE: The parameters vrf, mac-address, interface are not supported in the batch mode.
ipv6 ospf area
Enable IPv6 OSPF on an interface.
C9000 Series
Syntax
ipv6 ospf process id areaarea id
To disable OSPFv6 routing for an interface, use the no ipv6 ospf process-id area area-id
command.
Parameters
process-id Enter the process identification number.
area area-id Specify the OSPF area. The range is from 0 to 4294967295.
Defaults none
Command Modes INTERFACE
Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.14(0.2) Increased the area ID value from 65535 to 4294967295.
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.1.(0.0) Introduced on the S4810 and Z9000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
7.4.1.0 Introduced on the E-Series and C-Series.
ipv6 ospf authentication
Configure an IPsec authentication policy for OSPFv3 packets on an IPv6 interface.
C9000 Series
Syntax
ipv6 ospf authentication {null | ipsec spi number {MD5 | SHA1} [key-encryption-
type] key}}
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