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How Link-Local IPv6 addresses work

The basis for IPv6 is Link-Local communication. Each interface that is participating in IPv6 needs to have a Link-Local address.
Let’s look at how this address is generated and what is done to make sure it is unique.

-Generating a Link-Local Address
-Duplicate Address Detection
-EUI-64

This is module 4.2 from my IPv6 Essentials Course.

Read the written version of this video and more on my original blog post https://pall.as/ipv6-configuration/

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Alice AUSTIN

Alice AUSTIN is studying Cisco Systems Engineering. He has passion with both hardware and software and writes articles and reviews for many IT websites.