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Stateless: it is meant for hosts that generates it's own address.

Stateful : it is meant for hosts that obtain address from outside (external servers).

In IPV4 , DHCP provides this facility of giving IPv4 address to host.------------Stateful

In IPV6, DHCPv6 provides IPv6 addresses to host.

and further in IPV6 without use of external servers IP address is obtained,via Link-local address and other mechanisms.

So IPv4 is stateful and IPv6 can be stateful and stateless.

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