Nexus 5548 - ipv6 interface

[Marcin Gaszewski]

Is it possible at nexus 5548 with daughter card to assign ipv6 address to interface?

I have gone thru lot's od docs cisco says on tech doc:

• IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)

• IPv6 VRF Lite

So I am assuming is supporting IPv6 routing.

command line:

NEXUS-1(config-if)# ipv6 add?
                         ^
% Invalid command at '^' marker.
?
                         ^
% Invalid command at '^' marker.
NEXUS-1(config-if)# ipv6 ?
  port  Port policy

I was looking for feature to turn on but doesn't looks there is one.

Doesn't seem that I can turn it on by ipv6 unicast-routing.

[sean_evershed]

It might be something to do with your version of NX-OS.

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https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2077565

[Marcin Gaszewski]

My NX-OS is 5.1(3)N2(1) is that one supporting ipv6?

Is quite weird that nexus doesn’t support ipv6 where there is no many ipv4 left.

CISCO should really sort that out, we have spent over £50k for switches and we are not able to do dual stack ;(

[InayathUlla Sharieff · Accepted solution]

Marcin,

Nope ipv6 is not supported on 5.1(3)N2(1) i.

Were as it is supported on 5.2 release.

Feature History for IPv6

Table 3-5 lists the release history for this feature.

Table 3-5     Feature History for IPv6

Feature Name	Releases	Feature Information
IPv6	5.2(1)	This feature was introduced.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/unicast/521_N11/l3_ipv6.html#wp1200855

HTH

Regards

Inayath

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[Marcin Gaszewski]

Does it mean that we have to buy new NX OS update for brand new switches?

We have received those switches with this software yesterday.

Or do I need to buy ASR to do IPv6 routing?

thanks

[InayathUlla Sharieff]

Marcin,

Just go ahed and upgrade the firmware.

Regards

Inayath