Restricting IPv6 RAs

The RA Guard feature restricts the ports (or trunks) that can accept IPv6 RAs. Additionally, ICMPv6 router redirects are blocked on the configured ports.

Only physical ports and trunk ports are supported.

NOTE:

IPv6 RAs are ICMPv6 type 134 messages and may be sent to either the “all nodes” multicast address (FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:1) or to the address of the device itself as a result of an IPv6 router solicitation. IPv6 router redirect messages are ICMPv6 type 137 messages. They are sent to the source address of the packet that triggered the redirect.