Configuring and Troubleshooting IPv6 in Windows Vista
Although IPv6 is designed to allow IPv6-enabled nodes such as Windows Vista computers to automatically configure their interfaces with link-local addresses, these autoconfigured addresses are not registered in DNS servers and can be used only for communicating with other nodes on the local link. Alternatively, by using a DHCPv6 server, you can automatically assign global, site-local, or unique local IPv6 addresses to IPv6-enabled interfaces of link-attached nodes. This is the preferred scenario for end-to-end IPv6 connectivity in enterprises that have a native IPv6-only network infrastructure.
However, you can also use two methods to configure IPv6 settings manually on Windows Vista computers: ...
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