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5.5. Configuring IPv6 Settings
To configure
IPv6 settings, follow the procedure described in Section 5.4, “Configuring IPv4 Settings” and click the IPv6 menu entry.
- Method
- — Choose this option if you want to ignore
IPv6settings for this connection.— Choose this option to use SLAAC to create an automatic, stateless configuration based on the hardware address and router advertisements (RA).— Choose this option if the network you are connecting to uses router advertisements (RA) to create an automatic, stateless configuration, but you want to assignDNSservers manually.— Choose this option to not use RA, but request information fromDHCPv6directly to create a stateful configuration.— Choose this option if you want to assignIPaddresses manually.— Choose this option if the network you are connecting to does not have aDHCPserver and you do not want to assignIPaddresses manually. Random addresses will be assigned as per RFC 4862 with prefixFE80::0. - Addresses
- — Enter a comma separated list of
DNSservers.— Enter a comma separated list of domain controllers.
If you need to configure static routes, click the button and for more details on configuration options, see Section 4.3, “Configuring Static Routes with GUI”.

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