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Feb 7, 2015 8:44 AM in response to lancehankby ByronJones,IPv6 automatically creates several addresses for each network connection. While IPv4 addresses were often a 1:1 relationship with interfaces, that isn't the case with IPv6 addresses, which are always 1:many. There are "link local" addresses starting with fe80: and other addresses that can be autoconfigured. It is important to understand that ipv6 tries to make address configuration transparent to the user as much as possible. Manual IP addresses are essentially deprecated, and even DHCP servers are largely unnecessary. IPv6 routers should make announcements with the information that endpoint devices need to configure themselves. The local ipv6 addresses are handled automatically. Assuming that your ISP and router are IPv6 enabled, the "real" ipv6 addresses which support communication over the Internet should be autoconfigured as well.