IPv6 Address Configuration

IPv6 can be a licensed feature on the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller. If you want to add this license to a system, then contact your Acme Packet sales engineering for information related to the license. Once you have the license information, refer to the Getting Started chapter for instructions about how to add a license.

You do not need to take action if you are working with a new system with which the IPv6 license was purchased.

Note:

For ACLI parameters that support only IPv4, there are many references to that version as the accepted value for a configuration parameter or other IPv4-specific languages. For IPv6 support, these references have been edited. For example, rather than providing help that refers specifically to IPv4 addresses when explaining what values are accepted in an ACLI configuration parameter, you will now see an <ipAddr> note.

This section calls out the configurations and parameters for which you can enter IPv6 addresses. In this first IPv6 implementation, the complete range of system configurations and their parameters are available for IPv6 use.

The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller follows RFC 3513 its definition of IPv6 address representations. Quoting from that RFC, these are the two forms supported:

• The preferred form is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where the 'x's are the hexadecimal values of the eight 16-bit pieces of the address. Examples:

FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210

1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A

Note that it is not necessary to write the leading zeros in an individual field, but there must be at least one numeral in every field (except for the case described in 2.).

• Due to some methods of allocating certain styles of IPv6 addresses, it will be common for addresses to contain long strings of zero bits. In order to make writing addresses containing zero bits easier a special syntax is available to compress the zeros. The use of "::" indicates one or more groups of 16 bits of zeros. The "::" can only appear once in an address. The "::" can also be used to compress leading or trailing zeros in an address. For example, the following addresses: 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A a unicast address FF01:0:0:0:0:0:0:101 a multicast address

  0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 the loopback address

  0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 the unspecified addresses

  may be represented as:

  1080::8:800:200C:417A a unicast address

  FF01::101 a multicast address

  ::1 the loopback address

  :: the unspecified addresses