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RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
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RFC 2375: IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
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RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
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RFC 2461: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
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RFC 2462: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
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RFC 2463: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) Specification
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RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
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RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
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RFC 3307: Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses
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RFC 3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
IPv6 Basics Configuration Task List
Complete the following tasks to perform IPv6 basics configuration:
Task
Remarks
Configuring Basic IPv6 Functions
Required
Optional
Optional
Configuring IPv6 TCP Properties
Optional
Configuring ICMPv6 Packet Sending
Optional
Configuring Basic IPv6 Functions
Enabling IPv6
Enable IPv6 before you perform any IPv6-related configuration. Without IPv6 enabled, an
interface cannot forward IPv6 packets even if it has an IPv6 address configured.
Follow these steps to enable IPv6:
To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enable IPv6
ipv6
Required
Disabled by default.
Configuring an IPv6 Unicast Address
IPv6 site-local addresses and global unicast addresses can be configured in the following
ways: