It's important to distinguish between stateful and stateless DHCPv6. stateless DHCPv6 is fine. It's just a way for nodes to get dns/ntp/etc. Nodes still select

It's important to distinguish between stateful and stateless DHCPv6. stateless DHCPv6 is fine. It's just a way for nodes to get dns/ntp/etc. Nodes still select their addresses with SLAAC. Stateful DHCPv6 is the bad one. It assigns hosts specific addresses. > the router essentially always knows the MAC address, IP address and hostname of each device. You can still have this with ipv6 addresses. They easiest way is to use eui64, the original ipv6 addressing scheme where the address is calculated from the subnet + the MAC address of the interface. That way server VMs get deterministic addresses. If you use network-manager you can configure eui64 with the "add-gen-mode=eui64" setting. In my homelab, I have a few server VMs that use eui64 addressing whereas the end user devices use privacy addresses randomly selected from the subnet.