
August 2008
Page 22 of 55 OmniSwitch 6400------ Release 6.3.3.R01
• Address size increased from 32 bits (IPv4) to 128 bits (IPv6)
• Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6
• ICMPv6
• Neighbor Discovery
• Stateless Autoconfiguration
• RIPng
• Static Routes
• Tunneling: Configured and 6-to-4 dynamic tunneling
• Ping6
• Traceroute6
• DNS client using Authority records
• Telnetv6 - Client and server
• File Transfer Protocol (FTPv6) – Client and server
• SSHv6 – Client and Server
OmniSwitch 6400 switches support hardware-based IPv6 routing.
Note that the switch operates only in single MAC router mode. In this mode, each router VLAN is assigned
the same MAC address, which is the base chassis MAC address for the switch
IP DoS Filtering
By default, the switch filters the following denial of service (DoS) attacks, which are security attacks
aimed at devices that are available on a private network or the Internet:
• ARP Flood Attack
• Invalid IP Attack
• Multicast IP and MAC Address Mismatch
• Ping Overload
• Packets with loopback source IP address
IP Multicast Switching (IPMS)
IP Multicast Switching is a one-to-many communication technique employed by emerging applications
such as video distribution, news feeds, conferencing, netcasting, and resource discovery (OSPF, RIP2, and
BOOTP). Unlike unicast, which sends one packet per destination, multicast sends one packet to all devices
in any subnetwork that has at least one device requesting the multicast traffic. Multicast switching also
requires much less bandwidth than unicast techniques and broadcast techniques since the source hosts only
send one data stream to the ports on which destination hosts that request it are attached.
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