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Monday, September 12, 2011

Add IPv6 route in Windows 7

In Windows XP you can add IPv6 route easily using the GUI provided at the network configuration.
Following given a good reference on how to set a IPv6 route in XP
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_ip_v6_pro_rt_add.mspx?mfr=true


But for Widows7 it is not that easy.. Or I was not able to add a IPv6 route as for XP through the GUI. So, I tried the command line interface to add another route (Other than the default route which is automatically configured with the IPv6 settings)

Assume you have a network 2001:df0:12:a00::/64 and
your IP is 2001:df0:12:a00::1 and
your default gateway is 2001:df0:12:a00::ffff. 
So your default route will be
::/0 --> 2001:df0:12:a00::ffff

Assume you want to add another router to forward 64:eeb9::/96 (Which is NAT64 default network) to 2001:df0:12:a00::20 (Which is the NAT64 server of the network).

Now run the command line interface as the administrator (or a user with admin privileges)

'netsh interface ipv6 add route 64:eeb9::/64 "Local Area Connection" 2001:df0:12:a00::20' 

If the command is accepted it will display 'OK'

To check the routing entries type the following command

'netsh interface ipv6 show route'

It will display all routing related to IPv6 interface.

Please note that you have to give the interface name properly which I have given here as "Local Area Connection". It depend on the network interface that you want to use for IPv6 communication. By issuing the command ipconfig /all you can see the names of all the interfaces in your PC. 



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