3com S7906E Manuel De Montage

 

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Figure 1-1 Format of DUID-LL 

 

 

Figure 1-2 Network diagram for DHCPv6 

 

 

 shows a typical DHCPv6 network. A DHCPv6 client uses a multicast address to contact the 

DHCPv6 server on the local link to obtain an IPv6 address and other configuration parameters. If the 

DHCPv6 server resides on another subnet, the DHCPv6 client can contact the server via a DHCPv6 

relay agent. Thus, you do not need to deploy a DHCPv6 server on each subnet. 

 

Currently, the device can only serve as the DHCPv6 client and relay agent. Serving as a DHCPv6 client, 

the device only supports stateless DHCPv6 configuration instead of stateful DHCPv6 configuration, that 

is, the device can only obtain other network configuration parameters instead of an IPv6 address from 

the DHCPv6 server. 

 

After obtaining an IPv6 address through stateless address autoconfiguration, a device can use 

stateless DHCPv6 to obtain other configuration parameters (such as the DNS server address or domain 

name) from a DHCPv6 server. Since the DHCPv6 server does not maintain the state information of the 

device, this application is called stateless DHCPv6 configuration.