Autoconfiguration types

There are three autoconfiguration types, as follows:

• Autoconfiguration is completed through an address configuration protocol, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol v6 (DHCPv6). The autoconfiguration is stateful if a node gets configuration through Router Advertisement messages. This does not include the address prefixes that require the host to use and address the configuration protocol.
• Autconfiguration is stateful if a node has obtained an address through the Router Advertisement message and the address includes stateless address prefixes.
• Stateful and stateless autoconfiguration types; the host receives Router Advertisement messages that require hosts to use the address configuration protocol and includes stateless address prefixes.