D-Link DGS-1520 User Manual - Page 315

DGS-1520 Series Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Switch Web UI Reference Guide The fields that can be configured are described below: Parameter Interface Name Mode Description Enter the VLAN interface name here. Select the operation mode of IPv6 PIM entries used in this filtered search here. Options to choose from are Sparse Mode and Dense Mode. Click the Find button to locate a specific entry based on the information entered. Click the Show All button to display all the entries. Click the Edit button to modify the specified entry. Enter a page number and click the Go button to navigate to a specific page when multiple pages exist. After clicking the Edit button, the following page will appear. Figure 6-103 PIM for IPv6 Interface (Edit) Window The fields that can be configured are described below: Parameter Mode Designated Router Priority Description Select the IPv6 PIM mode used in this interface here. Options to choose from are None, Sparse Mode, and Dense Mode. PIM for IPv6 will be disabled in this interface when the None option was selected. Enter the DR priority value here. The range is from 0 to 4294967295. A larger value means a higher priority. This feature only takes effective when the VLAN interface is PIM-SM mode enabled. When a DR is a candidate for election, the following conditions apply: • The router with the highest priority value configured on an interface will be elected as the DR. If multiple routers have the same highest priority, then the router with the highest IPv6 address configured on the interface will be elected as the DR. • If a router does not advertise a priority value in its hello messages, the router is regarded as having the highest priority and will be elected as the DR. If there are multiple routers do not include the DR priority option in their 305