RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

This document specifies the steps a host takes in deciding how to autoconfigure its interfaces in IP version 6. The autoconfiguration process includes…

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Outgoing relationships (1 related RFC)

Obsoletes — RFC 2462: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

Incoming relationships (105 related RFCs)

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Updated by — RFC 7527: Enhanced Duplicate Address Detection
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9762: Using Router Advertisements to Signal the Availability of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation to Clients
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6550: RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4944: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6724: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7136: Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7084: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5072: IP Version 6 over PPP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8106: IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8299: YANG Data Model for L3VPN Service Delivery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6741: Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) Engineering Considerations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7707: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8064: Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7668: IPv6 over BLUETOOTH(R) Low Energy
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8344: A YANG Data Model for IP Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8995: Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (BRSKI)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6204: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8273: Unique IPv6 Prefix per Host
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8994: An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6957: Duplicate Address Detection Proxy
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7010: IPv6 Site Renumbering Gap Analysis
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7558: Requirements for Scalable DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) / Multicast DNS (mDNS) Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8105: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Ultra Low Energy (ULE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5692: Transmission of IP over Ethernet over IEEE 802.16 Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5909: Securing Neighbor Discovery Proxy: Problem Statement
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6575: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Mediation for IP Interworking of Layer 2 VPNs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6911: RADIUS Attributes for IPv6 Access Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8049: YANG Data Model for L3VPN Service Delivery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8163: Transmission of IPv6 over Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9131: Gratuitous Neighbor Discovery: Creating Neighbor Cache Entries on First-Hop Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5006: IPv6 Router Advertisement Option for DNS Configuration
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6788: The Line-Identification Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6964: Operational Guidance for IPv6 Deployment in IPv4 Sites Using the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7219: SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) Source Address Validation Improvement (SAVI)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7277: A YANG Data Model for IP Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7503: OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8302: Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) Optimization
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8766: Discovery Proxy for Multicast DNS-Based Service Discovery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5270: Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers over IEEE 802.16e Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6629: Considerations on the Application of the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (Shim6)