The stateless address autoconfiguration mechanism allows a host to generate its own addresses by using a combination of locally available information and router-advertised information.
The stateless address autoconfiguration
requires minimal manual configuration of hosts and routers.
Data ONTAP supports the following two types of autoconfigured IPv6 addresses:
- Autoconfigured address based on the router-advertised prefix: This address is a combination of the network prefix, which is router-advertised, and the network interface identifier.
- Autoconfigured link-local address: In the absence of routers, a host can generate only link-local addresses. Link-local addresses allow communication between hosts and routers that are on the same link.
RFC 2462 describes address autoconfiguration.
