DELL N3000 User Manual

Configuring IPv6 Routing

This chapter describes how to configure general IPv6 routing information on 

the switch, including global routing settings and IPv6 static routes. The topics 

covered in this chapter include:

• IPv6 Routing Overview
• Default IPv6 Routing Values
• Configuring IPv6 Routing Features (Web)
• Configuring IPv6 Routing Features (CLI)

The Dell Networking series switches support additional features to help 

manage IPv6 networks, including OSPFv3, DHCPv6, and IPv6 multicast. For 

information about OSPFv3, see "Configuring OSPF and OSPFv3" on 

page 1111. For information about DHCPv6, see "Configuring DHCPv6 

Server and Relay Settings" on page 1265. For information about IPv6 

multicast, see "Managing IPv4 and IPv6 Multicast" on page 1337.
For configuration examples that include IPv6 interface configuration, see 

IPv6 is the next generation of the Internet Protocol. With 128-bit addresses, 

versus 32-bit addresses for IPv4, IPv6 solves the address depletion issues seen 

with IPv4 and removes the requirement for Network Address Translation 

(NAT), which is used in IPv4 networks to reduce the number of globally 

unique IP addresses required for a given network.
On the Dell Networking N2000, N3000, and N4000 series switches, IPv6 

coexists with IPv4. As with IPv4, IPv6 routing can be enabled on loopback and 

VLAN interfaces. Each L3 routing interface can be used for IPv4, IPv6, or 

both. IP protocols running over L3 (for example, UDP and TCP) are common 

to both IPv4 and IPv6.