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Are VLANs needed with IPv6?
For crossing VLAN boundaries, a router is required. As with IPv4, if you subnet an IPv6 network you need to grow the network mask/prefix, e.g. you can subnet a /56 network into 256 /64 networks (or just two /57 networks for that matter).
How many VLANs do I need?
If you’ve got traffic that has to be prioritized(like VOIP, or Storage) than put that traffic in one VLAN. Your Users(and Printers) can be in one VLAN, or because of the amount I would make 2-3 VLANs; if there are security reasons to separate a certain department or group of users, than take them out of the User VLAN.
Can VLANs be on the same network?
VLANs use software to emulate separate physical LANs. Each VLAN is thus a separate broadcast domain and a separate network. As you have identified, routing between these VLANs would be difficult, because they are the same subnet.
How do I enable IPv6 on a VLAN?
Add IPv6 Addresses to an Interface
- Enter Interface Configuration mode for VLAN 1, and enable IPv6.
- Assign IPv6 address for the interface.
- Configure the IPv6 link-local address for the interface.
- Review the IPv6 information for the VLAN 1 interface.
What is IPv6 Unicast routing?
IPv6 Unicast Routing. An IPv6 unicast address is an identifier for a single interface, on a single node. A packet that is sent to a unicast address is delivered to the interface identified by that address.
Is there way to route IPv6 to different VLANs?
IPv6 host residing in different VLANS communicate via L3 device to route between the VLANS. The solution known as Intervlan Routing or Router on stick, a very well known solution of IPv4. This document is focussed on configuring IPv6 intervlan routing.
Can a Static IPv6 address be denied on a VLAN?
If an autoconfigured global unicast address already exists for the same subnet as a new, statically configured global unicast address, the statically configured address is denied.
Do you need different gateways for different VLANs?
As above – the key thing to understand is that there should be only 1 router (gateway) connecting the different vlan subnets together. This can either be a layer 3 switch, a In your example you have created sub-interfaces on the router – so these will be the gateways for clients.
What’s the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv6 is level 3. The one thing has nothing to do with the other. It can only cause trouble at points where both meet, i.e. at your router. The router needs to route traffic between VLANs. Now it does this based on IPv4.