Comment by IgorPartola
6 days ago
SLAAC is stupid simple. The router just sends out its address, the netmask and optionally DNS servers. You can configure each host on your network to use the MAC address based suffix, a privacy one (random and changes several times an hour), or a static suffix. This is way simpler than DHCP which is stateful and requires multiple back and forths with the DHCP server.
And yes each host/interface can have more than one address which is amazing compared to having to create virtual interfaces for IPv4. You can literally just add more addresses.
Oh and when working with Docker or other container systems you can just use a link-local subnet instead of setting up a virtual network which makes things so much easier and nicer. There it really is zero configuration, not even firewall rules. It takes less effort to do this than to use IPv4.
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