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Bridge GUI Guide: Network Configuration
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Auto Addressing - configures the Bridge to learn IPv6 global
prefixes from network routers (
Enabled, the default) or to
use only a locally established global address (
Disabled).
Configurable Global Address - manually establishes an IPv6
global network address—which must be within the IPv6
global scope—for the Bridge’s management interface.
Configurable Gateway - manually provides the IP address of
the default gateway for the Bridge’s IPv6 subnet. The
default gateway address must be a compatible link-local or
global address (i.e., lie within the same prefix as either the
global address or the link-local address).
If no default gateway is necessary (i.e., you are configuring
the Bridge for use on a private network unconnected to
other OSI Layer 3 networks), you can leave
Default
Gateway
at its default setting of all zeros.
Configurable GW Metric - establishes the IPv6 metric, or
relative routing cost, for the
Configurable Gateway, allowing
it to be assigned a preference relative to the automatically
assigned default gateways.
The rest of the settings in the
IPv6 portion of the Network
Configuration frame provide complete information about the
current IPv6 configuration and are view-only (whether or not
Auto Addressing is in effect).
Configured Global Address - normally shows the manually
configured IPv6 network address. There can, however, be
several seconds’ delay before a change in
Configurable
Global Address
takes effect and is displayed in the view-
only
Configured Global Address field.
Local Address - shows the Bridge’s link local IPv6 network
address, which is automatically generated regardless of
whether
Auto Addressing is in effect.
Other Addresses - shows all automatically configured IPv6
addresses for the Bridge, including router-configured
addresses and, when FP Mesh is licensed and enabled,
the RFC-4193 unique local address (Section 3.2.1).
Each displayed address of any type additionally shows the
applicable IPv6 subnet prefix length following the address
itself, separated by a slash (ex.
/64).
Default Gateways - lists all network gateways, whether
manually configured or active network IPv6 routers
configured to automatically supply their addresses and
metrics (shown in parentheses).
You can configure and view all IPv4 and IPv6 settings in Simple
View.