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The Ad Hoc Configuration Protocol (AHCP) is an autoconfiguration protocol for
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. I ...
and dual-stack IPv6/IPv4 networks designed to be used in place of router discovery and DHCP on networks where it is difficult or impossible to configure a server within every link-layer broadcast domain, for example mobile ad hoc networks.
AHCP will automatically configure
IPv4
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and
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. I ...
addresses,
name servers
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and NTP servers. It will not configure default routes, since it is designed to be run together with a routing protocol (such as Babel or OLSR).