HP 5500 Ei 5500 Si Switch Series Configuration Guide

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Step Command Remarks 
1.  Enter system view. 
system-view  N/A 
2.  Enable dynamic 
domain name 
resolution.  dns resolve 
Disabled by default. 
3.  Specify a DNS server.  dns server
 ipv6  ipv6-address 
[ interface-type interface-number  ] 
Not specified by default. 
If the IPv6 address of a DNS server is a 
link-local address, you must specify the 
interface-type and interface-number  
arguments. 
4.   Configure a DNS 
suffix.  dns domain 
domain-name  Optional. 
Not configured by default. Only...

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Static domain name resolution configuration 
example 
Network requirements 
As shown in Figure 73, t h e  d evic e  wa nt s  to  a c c e ss  t h e  hos t  by  us i n g  a n  e asy - to - re m e mb e r  d o m a i n  n a m e  
rather than an IPv6 address. Configure static domain name resolution on the device so that the device 
can use the domain name host.com to access the host whose IPv6 address is 1::2. 
Figure 73  Network diagram 
 
 
Configuration procedure 
# Configure a mapping between host...

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Dynamic domain name resolution configuration 
example 
Network requirements 
As shown in Figure 74, the  device  wants  to  ac c ess  the  host by us i ng  an e asy- to - remember  domai n n ame  
rather than an IPv6 address. The IPv6 address of th e DNS server is 2::2/64 and the server has a com 
domain, which stores the mapping between domain name host and IPv6 address 1::1/64. 
Configure dynamic domain name resolution and the do main name suffix com on the device that serves 
as a DNS client so...

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Figure 75 Creating a zone 
 
 
c. On the DNS server configuration page, right-click zone  com and select  Other New Records . 
Figure 76  Creating a record 
 
 
d. On the page that appears, select  IPv6 Host (AAAA) as the resource record type, and click 
Create Record .  

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Figure 77 Selecting the resource record type 
 
 
e. On the page that appears, enter host name  host and IPv6 address  1::1.  
f. Click  OK. 
The mapping between the IP address and host name is created.  

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Figure 78 Adding a mapping between do main name and IPv6 address 
 
 
2. Configure the DNS client: 
# Enable dynamic domain name resolution. 
 system-view 
[Device] dns resolve 
# Specify the DNS server 2::2. 
[Device] dns server ipv6 2::2 
# Configure com as the DNS suffix. 
[Device] dns domain com 
Verifying the configuration 
# Use the  ping ipv6 host  command on the device to verify that the communication between the device 
and the host is normal and that the corresponding destination IP...

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    bytes=56 Sequence=2 hop limit=126  time = 1 ms 
    Reply from 1::1 
    bytes=56 Sequence=3 hop limit=126  time = 1 ms 
    Reply from 1::1 
    bytes=56 Sequence=4 hop limit=126  time = 1 ms 
    Reply from 1::1 
    bytes=56 Sequence=5 hop limit=126  time = 1 ms 
 
  --- host.com ping statistics --- 
    5 packet(s) transmitted 
    5 packet(s) received 
    0.00% packet loss 
    round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/2 ms  

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Configuring tunneling(only available on the HP 
5500 EI) 
Overview 
Tunneling is an encapsulation technology: one network protocol encapsulates packets of another 
network protocol and transfers them over a virtual point-to-point connection. The virtual connection is 
called a tunnel. Packets are encapsulated and de-encapsulated at both ends of a tunnel. Tunneling refers 
to the whole process from data encapsulation to data transfer to data de-encapsulation. 
Tunneling provides the following...

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2.
 
After determining from the routing table that the  packet needs to be forwarded through the tunnel, 
Device A encapsulates the IPv6 packet with an IPv4 header and forwards it through the physical 
interface of the tunnel. 
3.  Upon receiving the packet, Device  B de-encapsulates the packet. 
4. Device B forwards the packet according to the destination address in the de-encapsulated IPv6 
packet. If the destination address is the device it self, Device B forwards the IPv6 packet to the...

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notation. For example, 1.1.1.1 can be represented by 0101:0101. The part that follows 
2002:abcd:efgh uniquely identifies a host in a 6to4 network. The tunnel destination is 
automatically determined by the  embedded IPv4 address, which make s it easy to create a 6to4 
tunnel. 
The tunnel can forward IPv6 packets because the 16 -bit subnet number of the 64-bit address prefix 
in 6to4 addresses can be customized and the firs t 48 bits in the address prefix are fixed to a 
permanent value and the...