Most of the reasons why you have to type v4 addresses are irrelevant in a v6 network. In a small to medium network you just plug in the router and you're done.

Most of the reasons why you have to type v4 addresses are irrelevant in a v6 network. In a small to medium network you just plug in the router and you're done. No picking a suitable private network, no configuring a DHCP server, no typing in manual router addresses. SLAAC is very nice like that. If you need to connect from machine to machine in the lan, use mdns and host names. This already works out of the box even in v4.