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Re:DDoS Letter to Chairman Wheeler by wmf on Friday October 28, 2016 @07:01PM (#12821508)
Devices tend to self-assign IPv6 addresses using SLAAC, but the router would still have MAC-to-IP mappings in its neighbor table. Or some cases the router assigns it using DHCPv6.
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Re:DDoS Letter to Chairman Wheeler by johncolanduoni on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:13PM (#12822067)
Just to clear things up for people unfamiliar with IPv6, the ISP does have some input in this process: they give your router a unique prefix (basically a subnet) which the router delegates to the devices in your network.
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