STD 102

RFC 9915

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6), January 2026

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Status:
INTERNET STANDARD
Obsoletes:
RFC 8415
Authors:
T. Mrugalski
B. Volz
M. Richardson
S. Jiang
T. Winters
Stream:
IETF
Source:
dhc (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9915

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Abstract

This document specifies the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6), an extensible mechanism for configuring nodes with network configuration parameters, IP addresses, and prefixes. Parameters can be provided statelessly or in combination with stateful assignment of one or more IPv6 addresses and/or IPv6 prefixes. DHCPv6 can operate either in place of or in addition to stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC).

This document obsoletes RFC 8415. It incorporates verified errata and obsoletes the assignment of temporary addresses (the IA_TA option) and the server unicast capability (the Server Unicast option and UseMulticast status code).


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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