Chapter 8. Basics of Dynamic Addressing in IPv6
This chapter introduces dynamic IPv6 address allocation, which provides a method for devices to create or obtain their global unicast addresses and other addressing information.
This chapter takes an overall look at the three methods for dynamic addressing and prepares you for the next three chapters, which discuss the configurations and details of each of these methods.
To help set the stage for more detailed discussion, this chapter discusses the following:
It compares how dynamic address allocation is done with IPv4 using stateful DHCPv4 (DHCP for IPv4).
It discusses the ICMPv6 Router Advertisement ...
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