CCENT/CCNA ICND1 100-101 Official Cert Guide

Rules for Connected and Local Routes

Routers add and remove connected routes, and local routes, based on the interface configuration and the interface state. First, the router looks for any configured unicast addresses on any interfaces by looking for the ipv6 address command. Then, if the interface is working—if the interface has a “line status is up, protocol status is up” notice in the output of the show interfaces command—the router adds both a connected and local route.

Note

Routers do not create IPv6 routes for link-local addresses.

The connected and local routes themselves follow the same general logic as with IPv4. The connected route represents the subnet connected to the interface, while the local route is a host route for only the ...