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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by nybble41 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:56PM (#21643981)
> Well, sure, and with IPv6 you are "typically assigned a single IPv6 address via SLAAC"!?

Unlike DHCP, SLAAC doesn't assign specific addresses to hosts. It communicates the network prefix via periodic broadcasts, and hosts choose their own addresses within that prefix.

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:49PM (#21644323)
No, SLAAC is the name of the configuration mechanism, the network protocol that is used for SLAAC is NDP, specifically router advertisements (RA), and SLAAC assigns a specific address to a host, based on the information in the RA and local policy on the host that specifies how specifically to generate the host part of that specific address.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by Dagger2 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:23AM (#21647002)
SLAAC is autonomous. It's more accurate to say that it tells a host to assign itself an address, rather than that it assigns an address to the host.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:06AM (#21647903)
No, SLAAC is the name of the configuration mechanism, the network protocol that is used for SLAAC is NDP, specifically router advertisements (RA), and SLAAC assigns a specific address to a host, based on the information in the RA and local policy on the host that specifies how specifically to generate the host part of that specific address.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by Dagger2 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:23AM (#21657902)
...you seem to have just copied and pasted the post I replied to.
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