HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator's Guide for TOUR 2.0 (April 2004, rev 2)

IPv6 Addressing and Concepts

Stateless Address Autoconﬁguration

Chapter 662

4. Forming a 128-bit link-local unicast address for the primary

interface fe80::a00:9ff:fe78:f339

View the conﬁguration by typing

ifconfig lan0 inet6

lan0: flags=4800841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,ONLINK>

inet6 fe80::a00:9ff:fe78:f339 prefix 10

Secondary Interface Autoconﬁguration

If an IPv6 router on the network advertises network preﬁxes in router

advertisements, IPv6 derives a second IPv6 address based on the

interface identiﬁer. IPv6 assigns this address to a secondary interface for

the network interface. The host adds the router as one of its default

gateways. In general, there are as many secondary interfaces conﬁgured

as there are preﬁxes advertised by the router.