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RouterDiscoveryEnabled (microsoft-windows-tcpip-interfaces-interface-ipv6settings-routerdiscoveryenabled)

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RouterDiscoveryEnabled controls whether the router discovery protocol—which informs hosts of the existence of routers—is enabled for the IPv6 protocol. This setting controls the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol defined in RFC 2461.

Values

true

Enables router discovery for the IPv6 protocol on this interface. This is the default value.

false

Disables router discovery for the IPv6 protocol on this interface.

Valid Configuration Passes

specialize

windowsPE

Parent Hierarchy

Microsoft-Windows-TCPIP | Interfaces | Interface | Ipv6Settings | RouterDiscoveryEnabled

Applies To

For the list of the Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-TCPIP.

XML Example

The following XML output shows how to configure TCPIP.

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-TCPIP" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <Interfaces>
   <!-- Add static IP address (192.168.0.1/24, ffff:1::3/48) & route (12.34.0.0/16) to interface with identifier "Ethernet 1" -->      <Interface wcm:action="add">
         <Ipv4Settings>
            <DhcpEnabled>true</DhcpEnabled> 
            <Metric>20</Metric> 
            <RouterDiscoveryEnabled>false</RouterDiscoveryEnabled> 
         </Ipv4Settings>
         <Ipv6Settings>
            <DhcpEnabled>false</DhcpEnabled> 
            <Metric>30</Metric> 
            <RouterDiscoveryEnabled>true</RouterDiscoveryEnabled> 
         </Ipv6Settings>
      <Identifier>Ethernet 1</Identifier>
         <UnicastIpAddresses>
           <IpAddress wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">192.168.0.1/24</IpAddress>
           <IpAddress wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="2">ffff:1::3/48</IpAddress>
         </UnicastIpAddresses>
         <Routes>
            <Route wcm:action="add">
               <Identifier>1</Identifier> 
               <Metric>10</Metric> 
               <NextHopAddress>12.34.0.0</NextHopAddress> 
               <Prefix>16</Prefix> 
            </Route>
            <Route wcm:action="add">
               <Identifier>10</Identifier> 
               <Metric>29</Metric> 
               <NextHopAddress>12.34.56.0</NextHopAddress> 
               <Prefix>24</Prefix> 
            </Route>
         </Routes>
      </Interface>
      <Interface wcm:action="add">
         <Ipv4Settings>
            <DhcpEnabled>true</DhcpEnabled> 
            <Metric>20</Metric> 
            <RouterDiscoveryEnabled>false</RouterDiscoveryEnabled> 
         </Ipv4Settings>
         <Ipv6Settings>
            <DhcpEnabled>false</DhcpEnabled> 
            <Metric>10</Metric> 
            <RouterDiscoveryEnabled>true</RouterDiscoveryEnabled> 
         </Ipv6Settings>
         <Identifier>Local Area Connection</Identifier> 
         <UnicastIpAddresses>
            <IpAddress wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">123.45.67.8</IpAddress> 
            </UnicastIpAddresses>
         <Routes>
            <Route wcm:action="add">
               <Identifier>1</Identifier> 
               <Metric>10</Metric> 
               <NextHopAddress>12.34.0.0</NextHopAddress> 
               <Prefix>16</Prefix> 
            </Route>
         </Routes>
      </Interface>
   </Interfaces>
</component>

Ipv6Settings