HP VPN Firewall Appliances High Availability Configuration Guide

Configuring IPv6 VRRP at the CLI

IPv6 VRRP can be configured only at the CLI.

VRRP for IPv6 configuration task list

Task Remarks

Specifying the type of MAC addresses mapped to virtual IPv6 addresses Optional.

Creating a VRRP group and configuring a virtual IPv6 address Required.

Configuring router priority, preemptive mode and tracking function Optional.

Configuring VRRP packet attributes Optional.

Specifying the type of MAC addresses mapped to virtual IPv6

addresses

After you specify the type of MAC addresses mapped to the virtual IPv6 address of VRRP groups and

create a VRRP group, the master in the VRRP group uses the specified type of MAC address as the source

MAC address for sending packets and uses the specified type of MAC address to answer ND requests

from hosts so that the hosts in the internal network can learn the mapping between the IPv6 address and

the MAC address.

The following types of MAC addresses are available to be mapped to the virtual IPv6 address of a VRRP

group:

• Virtual MAC address—By default, a virtual MAC address is automatically created for a VRRP group

when the VRRP group is created, and the virtual IPv6 address of the VRRP group is mapped to the

virtual MAC address. When such a mapping is adopted, the hosts in the internal network do not

need to update the mapping between the IPv6 address and the MAC address when the master

changes.

• Real MAC address of an interface—In case that an IP address owner exists in a VRRP group, if the

virtual IPv6 address is mapped to the virtual MAC address, two MAC addresses are mapped to one

IPv6 address. To avoid such as problem, map the virtual IPv6 address of the VRRP group to the real

MAC address of an interface to forward the packets from a host to the IP address owner.

Specify the type of the MAC addresses mapped to the virtual IPv6 addresses before creating a VRRP

group. Otherwise, you cannot change the type of the MAC addresses mapped to virtual IPv6 addresses.

To specify the type of MAC addresses mapped to virtual IPv6 addresses:

Ste

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view N/A

2. Specify the type of MAC

addresses mapped to virtual

IPv6 addresses.

vrrp ipv6 method { real-mac |

virtual-mac }

Optional.

Virtual MAC address by default.