Configure Process-redirect for the Management Port

Configure process-redirect messages 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.

Note

Note

This procedure supports Layer 2 or Layer 3 process-redirect on VSP 8600 Series only.

Before you begin

  • Disable IPv6 forwarding.

  • Enable Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

  • Create an IPv6 interface.

  • Configure an IPv6 address.

Procedure

  1. Enter mgmtEthernet Interface Configuration mode:

    enable

    configure terminal

    interface mgmtEthernet <mgmt | mgmt2>

  2. Configure process-redirect messages:

    ipv6 interface process-redirect

  3. Verify that process-redirect messages are configured on the management port.
    Switch:1(config-if)#ipv6 interface process-redirect
    

Example

The following examples 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