# Viewing the IPv6 routing table

Use the following procedure display the IPv6 routing table.

## Procedure

1. From the navigation tree, double-click IPv6.
2. In the IPv6 tree, click IPv6.
3. In the IPv6 work area, click the Route tab.

## Variable definitions

The following table describes the fields of the Route tab.

Variable | Value
--- | ---
Dest | Indicates the destination IPv6 address of the route.
PfxLength | Indicates the number of leading one bits that form the mask as a logical value. The prefix value must match the value in the Dest box. Values range from 0–128
IfIndex | The index value that uniquely identifies the interface to which this entry applies.
NextHop | Indicates the IPv6 address of the next system of a remote route.
Type | Indicates the IPv6 route type. discard: Indicates that packets to destinations matching this route are to be discarded. local: Indicates a route for which the next hop is the final destination. remote: Indicates a route for which the next hop is not the final destination.
Protocol | Indicates the IPv6 route protocol. Values include: other: none of the following local: Indicates non-protocol information such as manually configured entries. netmgmt: Indicates the static route ndisc: Indicates the value obtained from the Neighbor Discovery protocol.
Policy | Indicates the IPv6 route policy which sets conditions that would cause the selection of a multipath route.
| Note
| Unless the mechanism indicated by the IPv6 route protocol specifies otherwise, the policy specifier is the 8-bit Traffic Class field of the IPv6 packet header that is zero extended at the left to a 32-bit value.
Age | Indicates the time, in seconds, since the IPv6 route was last updated.
NextHopRDI | Indicates the Routing Domain ID of the next hop of this route.
| Note
| When this object is unknown or not relevant, this value is set to zero.
Metric | Indicates the IPv6 route metric. Determined by the routing protocol specified in the IPv6 route protocol value.
| Note
| When this object is unknown or not relevant to the protocol indicated by the IPv6 route protocol, the object value is the maximum value (4,294,967,295).