Operation; Protocols And Standards - HP A5120 EI Series Configuration Manual

Operation

Figure 62 Operation of stateless DHCPv6
DHCPv6 client
Information-request:
includes an Option Request option
includes the requested options
As shown in
The DHCPv6 client multicasts an Information-request message to the multicast address of all
1.
DHCPv6 servers and DHCPv6 relay agents. The Information-request message contains an Option
Request option, specifying the configuration parameters that the client requests from the DHCPv6
server.
After receiving the Information-request message, the DHCPv6 server returns the client a Reply
2.
message containing the requested configuration parameters.
The client checks the Reply message. If the obtained configuration parameters match those
3.
requested in the Information-request message, the client performs network configuration with the
parameters. If not, the client ignores the configuration parameters. If multiple replies are received,
the first received reply will be used.

Protocols and standards

 RFC 3736, Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6
 RFC 3315, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
 RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
 RFC 3633, IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6
DHCPv6 server
Reply:
Figure 62, stateless DHCPv6 operates in the following steps.
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