Chapter 9. Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)

In Chapter 8, “Basics of Dynamic Addressing in IPv6,” we introduced three methods an ICMPv6 Router Advertisement uses for dynamically allocating IPv6 global unicast addresses:

Image Method 1: Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)

Image Method 2: SLAAC and a stateless DHCPv6 server

Image Method 3: Stateful DHCPv6 server

In this chapter we will focus on the first method, Stateless Address Autoconfiguration ...

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