{"id":1289,"date":"2023-03-11T06:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2023-03-11T06:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T06:42:37","slug":"ccna-ipv6-addressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/11\/ccna-ipv6-addressing\/","title":{"rendered":"CCNA- IPv6 Addressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and are represented in hexadecimal notation, separated by colons. They are divided into eight 16-bit blocks, each of which is represented by four hexadecimal digits. Leading zeros in each block can be omitted, and consecutive blocks of zeros can be replaced with a double colon (::), but only once in an address.<\/p>\n<p>To configure IPv6 addressing on a Cisco router or switch, you can use the following steps:<\/p>\n<p>Enter global configuration mode:<br \/>\n<strong>Router&gt; enable<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Router# configure terminal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assign a unique IPv6 address to the interface:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Router(config)# interface interface_name<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Router(config-if)# ipv6 address ipv6_address\/prefix_length<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, to assign the address 2001:db8::1\/64 to interface GigabitEthernet0\/0, you would enter the following commands:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Router(config)# interface GigabitEthernet0\/0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Router(config-if)# ipv6 address 2001:db8::1\/64<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enable the interface with the no shutdown command:<br \/>\n<strong>Router(config-if)# no shutdown<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Router(config)# ipv6 route ::\/0 next-hop ipv6_address<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, to configure the default gateway as 2001:db8::2, you would enter the following command:<br \/>\n<strong>Router(config)# ipv6 route ::\/0 next-hop 2001:db8::2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Verify the IPv6 address configuration using the show ipv6 interface command:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Router# show ipv6 interface<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check this video: Tutorial on IPv6<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CCNA Training - A tutorial on IPv6\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IWDLz_OABp4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and are represented in hexadecimal notation, separated by colons. They are divided into eight 16-bit blocks, each of which is represented by four hexadecimal digits. Leading zeros in each block can be omitted, and consecutive blocks of zeros can be replaced with a double colon (::), but only once in an address. To configure&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/11\/ccna-ipv6-addressing\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netsims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certexams.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}