Chapter 8 -- Address Autoconfiguration

Chapter 8

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Describe the use of address autoconfiguration in IPv6.
• Describe the states of an autoconfigured address and their relation to preferred and valid lifetimes.
• Describe the types of autoconfiguration.
• Explain the details of the stateless address autoconfiguration process.
• Describe the automatically configured addresses for a host running the IPv6 protocol for the Windows .NET Server 2003 family and Windows XP.