Chapter 8

SLAAC and DHCPv6

Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

  • How does an IPv6 host acquire its IPv6 configuration?

  • How does SLAAC operate?

  • How does DHCPv6 operate?

  • How do you configure a stateful and stateless DHCPv6 server?

Key Terms

This chapter uses the following key terms. You can find the definitions in the Glossary.

Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) Page 224

DHCPv6 Page 224

DHCPv6 server Page 224

DHCPv6 client Page 224

DHCPv6 relay agent Page 224

global unicast addresses (GUA) Page 224

link-local addresses (LLAs) Page 224

ICMPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message Page 224

Other Configuration flag (O flag) Page 227

stateless DHCPv6 server Page 227

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