All About IPv6 Address Allocation
Preface IPv4 has only one method of dynamic address allocation, namely DHCP, but IPv6 has two allocation methods, SLAAC and DHCPv6, and DHCPv6 additionally has the PD (Prefix Delegation) extension. These three allocation methods also interact with each other, which makes problems arising during IPv6 allocation far more common than with IPv4. Most tutorials you can find only solve problems superficially, are ambiguous about the underlying technical details, and do not fundamentally clarify the differences between IPv6 and IPv4. ...