DHCP Client IPv6 Availability

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) can lease both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses. If IPv6 is not available, the DHCP service uses IPv4 only.

Events

Event ID Source Message

1018

Microsoft-Windows-DHCP-Client

 DHCPv6 initialization has failed on the computer with the error code specified. DHCP service will start with IPv4 only.

DHCP Client

DHCP Infrastructure