March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
Consider the following diagram where a DHCPv6 client that is enabled to receive an IPv6 address from DHCPv6 server will send a DHCPv6 solicit message:

This message is a UDP packet with the destination port as 547. A DHCPv6 solicit message will be flooded to all-DHCPv6 multicast address ff02::1:2. The source address will be set to the link-local IPv6 address of the client.
The DHCPv6 server, upon receiving the solicit message, will send a DHCPv6 advertise message. This message will be unicasted back to the link-local address of the DHCPv6 client. One or more DHCPv6 servers may be present in the network and all servers will be ...
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