What is understood by auto-configuration of IPv6?
The address auto-configuration feature is built into the IPv6 protocol to facilitate intranet-wide address management, enabling a large number of IP hosts to easily discover the network and obtain new, and globally unique, IPv6 addresses associated with their location. The auto-configuration feature enables plug-and-play Internet deployment. As a result, network devices could connect to the network without manual configuration and without any servers, such as DHCP servers.