Juniper EX and IPv6

[Udo Steinegger]

Pekka,

You need family ethernet-switching rather than family
Inet6 on your Interface/unit.
Guess that was your problem.

My setup:
Host--ex4200--ex4200--host

Works just Fine with JunOS 9.x, with x equals to 0, 1 and 2

Hope that helps

Cheers
Udo
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Am 08.11.2008 um 07:56 schrieb Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Dave Diller wrote:
>>> Juniper EX-switches (when in L2 mode) don't forward IPv6 frames by  
>>> default. DUH!
>>
>> What version of code was this?  It seems to work for me as is with  
>> trunked ports, on 9.2R1.10.
>>
>> I've got an EX in the lab, with a GE trunked to each of two T- 
>> series.  I just put an IPv6 address on the router subinterfaces and  
>> was able to ping across after the ~10 second neighbor discovery  
>> process.  I don't remember intentionally configuring anything to  
>> "enable" passing v6 through the box since I wasn't aware of this  
>> until now.
>>
>> EX interfaces are plain vanilla:
>>
>>   ge-0/0/1 {
>>       mtu 9216;
>>       unit 0 {
>>           family ethernet-switching {
>>               port-mode trunk;
>>               vlan {
>>                   members [ 55 66 ];
>>               }
>>           }
>>       }
>>   }
>
> This was 9.2.  We tested only non-tagged regular ports and had to  
> add something like this:
>
> interfaces {
>  vlan {
>    unit 0 {
>      family inet6;
>    }
>  }
> }
>
> -- 
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>