DHCPv6
- Mentors
- Tommaso Pecorella, Manoj Kumar Rana, Alberto Gallegos
- Organization
- The ns-3 Network Simulator Project
- Technologies
- c++
- Topics
- networking, ipv6
The project aims to implement DHCP for IPv6 (DHCPv6), which is used in IPv6 networks for address configuration on devices, and allows for central management of the network.
ns-3 has a model for DHCP, which is used in IPv4 networks for address configuration. In IPv6, stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) may be used, but this does not allow one to manage addresses of hosts in a network. ns-3 currently does not have an implementation for DHCPv6, and the aim is to add functionality for this protocol.