Users Guide
Network Administration: Route Settings 225
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–
Router Advertisement Lifetime (Sec)
—Enter the remaining length
of time, in seconds, that this router will continue to be useful as a
default router. A value of zero indicates that it is no longer useful as a
default router.
–
Reachable Time (mS)
—Enter the amount of time that a remote IPv6
node is considered reachable or select the
Use Default
option to use
the system default.
IPv6 Prefixes
To define prefixes to be advertised on the interfaces of the device:
1
Click
Network Administration >
Route Settings > IPv6 Routes Settings
>
IPv6 Prefixes
.
2
To add an interface, click
Edit, Add
.
3
Select the required IPv6
Interface
on which a prefix is to be added.
4
Enter the following fields:
•
IPv6
Prefix
—Enter the following for the address to be defined on the
interface:
•
Prefix Address
—The IPv6 network. This argument must be in the
form documented in RFC 4293 where the address is specified in
hexadecimal—using 16-bit values between colons.
•
Prefix-Length
—The length of the IPv6 prefix. A decimal value
that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the
address comprise the prefix (the network portion of the address).
A slash mark must precede the decimal value
•
Prefix Advertisement
—Select to advertise this prefix.
•
Valid Lifetime (Sec)
—Enter remaining length of time, in seconds,
that this prefix will continue to be valid, i.e., time until invalidation.
The address generated from an invalidated prefix should not appear as
the destination or source address of a packet. Select
Infinite
to set the
field to 4,294,967,295, which represents infinity.
•
Preferred Lifetime (Sec)
—Enter the remaining length of time, in
seconds, that this prefix will continue to be preferred. After this time
has passed, the prefix should no longer be used as a source address in
new communications, but packets received on such an interface are