IPv6 Packet Tracer Lab

Cisco Packet-Tracer IPv6 Router Configuration

In this exercise, you will use Packet Tracer to configure Cisco Routers to route between two LANs connected by a Serial connection using IPv6 only.

Topology Diagram

Figure 1: Topology

The structure show in Figure 1 can be found in the file Small_IPv6_PT.pkt.

Addressing Table
Host R1 R2 PC1 PC2
Table 1: Addressing Table

Interface FastEthernet 0/0 Serial 0/0/0 Serial 0/0/0 FastEthernet 0/0 IPv6 Gateway/DNS IPV6 FastEthernet IPv6 Gateway/DNS IPV6 FastEthernet

IPv6 Address 2001:DB8:0:1::1/64 FC00:0:0:9::1/64 FC00:0:0:9::2/64 2001:DB8:0:2::1/64 AutoConfig AutoConfig AutoConfig AutoConfig

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Instructions
1. On Router R1, use the command line interface (CLI) to access the Cisco IOS prompt. Enter Privilege mode (enable) and move to configuration mode (config term):
R1> enable R1# config term Enter configuration commands, one per line. R1(config)#

End with CNTL/Z.

2. Enable the global routing of IPv6 on R1 by entering IPv6 unicast-routing.

R1(config)# ipv6 unicast-routing R1(config)#

3. Configure the FastEthernet 0/0 interface to (a) enable IPv6, (b) assign the IPv6 address assigned in the addressing table above, (c) enable the IPv6 version of rip on this interface, and (d) activate the interface:
R1(config)# interface FastEthernet 0/0 R1(config-if)# ipv6 enable R1(config-if)# ipv6 address 2001:db8:0:1::1/64 R1(config-if)# ipv6 rip RIP enable R1(config-if)# no shutdown R1(config-if)# exit R1(config)#

4. Configure the Serial 0/0/0 interface to (a) enable IPv6, (b) assign the IPv6 address assigned in the addressing table above, (c) enable the IPv6 version of rip on this interface, and (d) activate the interface (Note: R1 has the DCE end of the serial cable so needs to set the clock rate for the serial line; this will not need to be done on router R1):
R1(config)# interface Serial 0/0/0 R1(config-if)# ipv6 enable R1(config-if)# ipv6 address FC0:0:0:9::1/64 R1(config-if)# ipv6 rip RIP enable R1(config-if)# clock rate 64000 R1(config-if)# no shutdown R1(config-if)# exit R1(config)#

5. Exit configuration mode and save the routers running-config:

R1(config)# exit R1# R1# write Building configuration... [OK] R1#

6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 on router R1 being sure to use the IPv6 addresses listed in the Addressing table for R2. (You should not set the clock rate on the serial line for Router R2.)

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7. Open the PC1 object in Packet Tracer (click on the PC1 icon). On the Config tab, click on Settings and then set the IPv6 gateway to be autoconfigured:

Figure 2: PC1 IPv6 Gateway setting

8. Check the FastEthernet setting for PC1. You should see that the FastEthernet port is set to Auto Config for IPv6 and the listed IPv6 address has the network prefix specified on the network by the connected router.

Figure 3: PC1 FastEthernet setting

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for PC2.

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10. On both PC1 and PC2, click on the Desktop tab and open the Command prompt. Determine the IPv6 address for the PC by using the ipv6config command1.
PC>ipv6config IPv6 Address....................: 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912/64 Default Gateway.................: FE80::230:F2FF:FEAD:BC01 PC>

11. Record the IPv6 address for both PC1 and PC2 below: PC1 IPv6 address: PC2 IPv6 address: 12. From PC1, attempt to ping the IPv6 address for PC2 (do not include the /64 shown in the output of ipv6config:
PC>ping 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912 Pinging 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912 with 32 bytes of data: Reply Reply Reply Reply from from from from 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912: 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912: 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912: 2001:DB8:0:1:210:11FF:FE8C:2912: bytes=32 bytes=32 bytes=32 bytes=32 time=405ms time=156ms time=156ms time=141ms TTL=126 TTL=126 TTL=126 TTL=126

13. Repeat the ping attempt from PC2 to PC1 using the IPv6 address for PC1 as the destination.

Reflection
In this exercise, you configured a Cisco router to forward packets among three networks using only IPv6; IPv4 was not configured. The routers were configured with IPv6 addresses and RIP was configured to update the routing tables automatically. The workstations were configured to be automatically configured. Packet tracer uses EUI-64 encoding by default. If you are interested, examine the IPv6 address configured on the workstations and compare that to the listed MAC address; refer to the class discussion about EUI-64 encoding for details.

Clean Up
There is no clean up required for this lab. Close the Packet Tracer program and, unless otherwise directed, shutdown your lab machine.

On a non-Packet Tracer machine, IPv6 configuration is shown as part of the standard ipconfig output. The ipv6config command is particular to the Packet Tracer simulation.
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