Assigning Addresses to Hosts in a Subnet
Now that the engineer has planned which IPv6 subnet will be used in each location, the individual IPv6 addressing can be planned and implemented. Each address must be unique, in that no other host interface uses the same IPv6 address. Also, the hosts cannot use the subnet ID itself.
The process of assigning IPv6 addresses to interfaces works similarly to IPv4. Addresses can be configured statically, along with the prefix length, default router, and DNS IPv6 addresses. Alternately, hosts can learn these same settings dynamically, using either DHCP or a built-in IPv6 mechanism called Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, or SLAAC.
For example, Figure 26-13 shows some static IP addresses that could be chosen ...
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