DHCPv6

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DHCPv6

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Overview

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The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IPv6 is a network management protocol used on IPv6 based networks. A DHCPv6 server dynamically assigns an IPv6 address and other network configuration parameters to each device on a network so they can communicate with other IP networks. See this DHCPv6 Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCPv6>_ for a detailed overview of how DHCPv6 works.

Note that Zephyr only supports DHCPv6 client functionality.

API Reference

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.. doxygengroup:: dhcpv6