The Neighbor Discovery Protocol
IPv6 hosts need to know several important IPv6 settings that mirror the settings needed on IPv4 hosts: an address, the associated prefix length (mask equivalent), the default router address, and the DNS server address(es). Figure 28-1 shows those four concepts for PC1 on the left.
Figure 28-1 IPv6 Settings Needed on Hosts
Note that of the four settings, three are unicast IPv6 addresses. The PC’s own IPv6 address is typically a global unicast or unique local unicast, as are the PC’s references to the DNS servers. However, because the default router must be locally reachable, the default router setting typically ...
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