4. IPv6 address auto-configuration
The SLAAC IPv6 address auto-configuration mechanism enables a node to generate and assign itself an IPv6 address.
4.1 Link-local and global addresses
First of all, each IPv6 node must have a LUA address. To do this, it generates an IID using one of the methods described above (§
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