Article | REF: TE7506 V1

IPv6 security - Addressing and auto-configuration

Author: Jean-Michel COMBES

Publication date: May 10, 2013

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4. IPv6 address auto-configuration

The SLAAC IPv6 address auto-configuration mechanism enables a node to generate and assign itself an IPv6 address.

4.1 Link-local and global addresses

First of all, each IPv6 node must have a LUA address. To do this, it generates an IID using one of the methods described above (§ 3

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