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Dynamically assigning IPv6 addresses

Dynamically assigning IPv6 addresses

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Dynamically assigning IPv6 addresses

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- [Instructor] With IP Version 6, we also need IP address information. Just like IP Version 4, we have a prefix portion of the address that refers to the network portion and we've got a host portion of the address. But with IP Version 6, instead of having a subnet mask to say where we draw that dividing line, we have something called the prefix length. The length is the number of bits in the prefix, in the network portion of the address. And we also need information, such as, how do I get to a DNS Server so I can translate those names into IPv6 addresses? Now we certainly could do all of that manually and go in and one at a time add all this information to our clients, but a much more scalable solution is to use the DHCP Version 6 Server. Yeah, there's a special version of the DHCP Server just for IP Version 6 clients. And there's a couple of ways of doing this, Stateful and Stateless. First, consider Stateful DHCP…

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