Setting Up Windows Server 2012 DHCP IPv6 Scopes

To support stateful IPv6 with DHCP, the network administrator can create IPv6 DHCP scopes on a Windows Server 2012 DHCP server. To create a new IPv6 DHCP scope, follow these steps:

1. Open the DHCP console and connect to the desired DHCP server.

2. When the DHCP Manager console opens, expand the DHCP server to reveal the IPv4 and IPv6 nodes.

3. Select and expand the IPv6 node, right-click the node, and select New Scope.

4. Click Next on the Welcome page.

5. On the Scope Name page, enter a name and description for the scope and click Next.

6. On the Scope Prefix page, enter the scope prefix and leave the default of 0 for the preference. For our example, we use 2001:dba:ce::/64 as the prefix and 0 ...

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