Enabling Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

Enable IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration to generate addresses using a combination of locally available information and information advertised by routers.

The default is disabled.

Procedure

  1. Enter Global Configuration mode:

    enable

    configure terminal

  2. Enable IPv6 autoconfiguration:

    ipv6 autoconfig

Example

Switch:1(config)#ipv6 autoconfig

The following example shows a sample output for the show ipv6 global command.

Switch:1#show ipv6 global
        forwarding                     : disable
        default-hop-cnt                : 64
        number-of-interfaces           : 2
        icmp-error-interval            : 1000
        icmp-error-quota               : 50
        icmp-unreach-msg               : disable
        icmp-addr-unreach-msg          : enable
        icmp-port-unreach-msg          : enable
        icmp-echo-multicast-request    : enable
        static-route-admin-status      : enable
        alternative-route              : enable
        ecmp                           : disable
        ecmp-max-path                  : 1
        source-route                   : disable
        host-autoconfig                : enable