With all the talk about IPv6 I wanted to take the opportunity to show that some things don’t really change. One hinderance I hear from many of my students is that it’s uncharted territory and they are not sure what will happen. In this post I’ve used OSPF to show you that some elements of IPv6 are very similar to that of IPv4.
We can begin with the initial configuration. It may seem like there is a bit of a difference here. In IPv6 there is no “network” command so OSPF is enabled on the interface. Also, the Router ID needs to be defined since it’s still a 32-bit identifier. So globally you need to enable the process and define the router-id, then you enable the protocol on the interface. I’ve done that here:
ipv6 router ospf 1 router-id 1.1.1.1 log-adjacency-changes ! interface FastEthernet0/0 no ip address duplex auto speed auto ipv6 address 2001:DB8:1:2::1/64 ipv6 enable ipv6 ospf 1 area 0[Read more...]








