Connectivity Guide

• IPv6 forwarding is permanently disabled on the management Ethernet interface so that it remains in Host mode and does not operate
as a router regardless of the ipv6 address autoconfig setting.
If necessary, you can manually disable IPv6 processing on an interface so that the congured IPv6 addresses do not take eect. The IPv6
addresses take eect again when you re-enable IPv6.
If you disable IPv6 and congure a Layer (L2) interface in Layer (L3) mode, IPv6 is not automatically re-enabled on the interface. You must
manually re-enable it.
A link-local address automatically generates when you re-enable IPv6 on an interface with the ipv6 enable command.
Disable and enabIe IPv6
OS10(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/8
OS10(conf-if-eth1/1/8)# ipv6 address 2111:dddd:0eee::22/64
OS10(conf-if-eth1/1/8)# no ipv6 address autoconfig
OS10(conf-if-eth1/1/8)# no ipv6 enable
OS10(conf-if-eth1/1/8)# ipv6 enable
Display IPv6 status
OS10# show interface ethernet 1/1/20
Ethernet 1/1/20 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is Dell EMC Eth, address is ec:f4:bb:fb:fa:30
Current address is ec:f4:bb:fb:fa:30
Pluggable media present, QSFP+ type is QSFP+ 40GBASE CR 1.0M
Wavelength is 850
Receive power reading is 0.0
Interface index is 17305562
Internet address is 20.20.20.1/24
Mode of IPv4 Address Assignment: MANUAL
Interface IPv6 oper status: Enabled
Link local IPv6 address: fe80::eef4:bbff:fefb:fa30/64
Global IPv6 address: 2020::1/64
...
OS10# show ipv6 interface brief
Interface Name admin/protocol IPV6 Address/Link-Local Address IPv6 Oper Status
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Ethernet 1/1/1:1 up / up fe80::eef4:bbff:fefb:f9f0/64
2017::1/64 Enabled
Ethernet 1/1/20 up / up fe80::eef4:bbff:fefb:fa30/64
2020::1/64 Enabled
Management 1/1/1 up / up fe80::eef4:bbff:fefb:f9ef/64 Enabled
Vlan 1 up / up fe80::eef4:bbff:fefb:fa59/64 Enabled
IPv6 addresses
An IPv6 address consists of a 48-bit global routing prex, optional 16-bit subnet ID, and a 64-bit interface identier in the extended
universal identier (EUI)-64 format.
IPv6 128-bit addresses are represented as a series of eight 16-bit hexadecimal elds separated by colons: x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x.
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57a
Leading zeros in each eld are optional. You can also use two colons (::) to represent successive hexadecimal elds of zeros, but you can
use this short version only one time in each address:
2001:db8::1428:57ab
In the following example, all the addresses are valid and equivalent:
• 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab
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