
Operation Manual – IPv6 Management
H3C S5600 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 IPv6 Configuration
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ICMPv6 message
Function
Used to respond to a router solicitation
message
Router advertisement (RA) message
With the RA message suppression
disabled, the router regularly sends a
router advertisement message
containing information such as address
prefix and flag bits.
Redirect message
When a certain condition is satisfied, the
default gateway sends a redirect
message to the source host so that the
host can reselect a correct next hop
router to forward packets.
Note:
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H3C S5600 Series Ethernet Switches do not support the RS, RA, or Redirect
message.
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Of the above mentioned IPv6 NDP functions, H3C S5600 Series Ethernet Switches
support the following three functions: address resolution, neighbor unreachability
detection, and duplicate address detection. The subsequent sections present a
detailed description of these three functions and relevant configuration.
The NDP mainly provides the following functions:
I. Address resolution
Similar to the ARP function in IPv4, a node acquires the link-layer address of neighbor
nodes on the same link through NS and NA messages.
Figure 1-3
shows how node A
acquires the link-layer address of node B.
Figure 1-3
Address resolution
The address resolution procedure is as follows: