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

IPv6 Addressing and Concepts

Stateless Address Autoconﬁguration

Chapter 660

Stateless Address Autoconﬁguration

Stateless address autoconﬁguration requires no manual conﬁguration of

hosts, minimal conﬁguration of routers, and no additional servers. The

primary interface (lanX:0) is automatically assigned a link-local address

by the system when the interface is conﬁgured. This allows each IPv6

interface to have at least one source address that can be used by

Neighbor Discovery. Therefore, it is not advisable to assign other

addresses to the primary interface besides the link-local address. See

RFC 2373 “IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture” for details.