© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.IP6FD v IPv6 Operations Enabling IPv6 on Cisco Routers

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.IP6FD v ipv6 unicast-routing router(config)# Enables IPv6 traffic forwarding Enabling IPv6 on Cisco Routers To enable IPv6 on Cisco IOS routers, enable IPv6 unicast packet forwarding.

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.IP6FD v IPv6 Address Configuration The ipv6 address command: Enables IPv6 on the interface Configures the interface IPv6 addresses ipv6 address [link-local] router(config-if)# ipv6 address / [eui-64] ipv6 unnumbered ipv6 enable

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.IP6FD v router# show ipv6 interface Ethernet0 Ethernet0 is up, line protocol is up IPv6 is enabled, link-local address is FE80::260:3EFF:FE47:1530 Global unicast address(es): 2001:DB8:C18:1:260:3EFF:FE47:1530, subnet is 2001:DB8:C18:1::/64 Joined group address(es): FF02::1:FF47:1530 FF02::1 FF02::2 MTU is 1500 bytesy IPv6 Address Configuration (Cont.) Ethernet0 MAC Address: e ipv6 unicast-routing interface Ethernet0 ipv6 address 2001:db8:c18:1::/64 eui-64 LAN: 2001:db8:c18:1::/64

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.IP6FD v Summary IPv6 must be enabled globally on a Cisco router and on any interface for which you wish to route IPv6 packets. The ipv6 unicast-routing command is used to enable IPv6 routing on a Cisco router. IPv6 addresses are assigned to interfaces using the ipv6 address command.

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.IP6FD v2.02-6