Microsens MS453490M Management Guide - Manual (Page 422)

C HAPTER 16 | IP Configuration
Setting the Switch’s IP Address (IP Version 6)
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Figure 253: Configuring an IPv6 Address
S HOWING IP V 6
A DDRESSES
Use the IP > IPv6 Configuration (Show IPv6 Address) page to display the
IPv6 addresses assigned to an interface.
CLI R EFERENCES
◆ "show ipv6 interface" on page 935
P ARAMETERS
These parameters are displayed:
◆ VLAN – ID of a configured VLAN which is to be used for management
access. By default, all ports on the switch are members of VLAN 1.
However, the management station can be attached to a port belonging
to any VLAN, as long as that VLAN has been assigned an IP address.
(Range: 1-4093)
◆ IP Address Type – The address type (Global, EUI-64, Link Local).
◆ IP Address – An IPv6 address assigned to this interface.
In addition to the unicast addresses assigned to an interface, a host is
also required to listen to the all-nodes multicast addresses FF01::1
(interface-local scope) and FF02::1 (link-local scope).
FF01::1/16 is the transient interface-local multicast address for all
attached IPv6 nodes, and FF02::1/16 is the link-local multicast address
for all attached IPv6 nodes. The interface-local multicast address is
only used for loopback transmission of multicast traffic. Link-local
multicast addresses cover the same types as used by link-local unicast
addresses, including all nodes (FF02::1), all routers (FF02::2), and
solicited nodes (FF02::1:FFXX:XXXX) as described below.
A node is also required to compute and join the associated solicited-
node multicast addresses for every unicast and anycast address it is
assigned. IPv6 addresses that differ only in the high-order bits, e.g.
due to multiple high-order prefixes associated with different
aggregations, will map to the same solicited-node address, thereby
reducing the number of multicast addresses a node must join. In this
example, FF02::1:FF90:0/104 is the solicited-node multicast address
which is formed by taking the low-order 24 bits of the address and
appending those bits to the prefix.