Flags in IPv6 Router Advertisement Messages
An IPv6 router advertisement message can include the following flags:
- Managed Address Configuration: This flag indicates to hosts on a local link if they should use the stateful autoconfiguration feature to get IPv6 addresses for their interfaces. If the flag is set, the hosts use stateful autoconfiguration to get addresses as well as non-IPv6-address information. If the flag is not set, the hosts do not use stateful autoconfiguration to get addresses and if the hosts can get non-IPv6-address information from stateful autoconfiguration is determined by the setting of the Other Stateful Configuration flag.
- Other Stateful Configuration: This flag indicates to hosts on a local link if they can get non-IPv6 address autoconfiguration information. If the flag is set, the hosts can use stateful autoconfiguration to get non-IPv6-address information.
Note: When determining if hosts can use stateful
autoconfiguration to get non-IPv6-address information, a set Managed Address
Configuration flag overrides an unset Other Stateful Configuration flag. In this
situation, the hosts can obtain non-IPv6-address information. However, if the
Managed Address Configuration flag is not set and the Other Stateful Configuration
flag is set, then the setting of the Other Stateful Configuration flag is used.