Stateless Autoconfiguration
Autoconfiguration
The second of the two options for dynamic IPv6 address assignment uses a built-in IPv6 feature called stateless autoconfiguration as the core tool. Stateless autoconfiguration allows a host to automatically learn the key pieces of addressing information—prefix, host, and prefix length—plus the default router IP address and DNS IP addresses. To learn or derive all these pieces of information, stateless autoconfiguration actually uses the following functions:
Step 1. IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) ...
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