Enable the Processing of Redirect Messages on the Management Port

Perform this procedure to honor or ignore redirect messages for the management port. Redirect messages are visible only when Stateless Address Autoconfiguration is configured on switches capable of routing IPv6 traffic.

The default is disabled.

Before you begin

Disable IPv6 forwarding.
Enable Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Create an IPv6 interface.
Configure an IPv6 address.

Procedure

Enter mgmtEthernet Interface Configuration mode:

enable

configure terminal

interface mgmtEthernet <mgmt | mgmt2>
Enable processing redirect messages:

ipv6 interface process-redirect
Verify that configuration on the management port:

show ipv6 interface process-redirect

Example

The following example shows a sample output of the show ipv6 interface process-redirect command.

Switch:1#show ipv6 interface process-redirect

===============================================================================
                      Process ICMP redirect status
===============================================================================
IFINDX                DESCR                VLAN                STATUS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
64                   PORT-mgmt             4092                Enabled

192                  VLAN-5                5                   Disabled

2050                 VLAN-2                2                   Disabled