As the title says, I would like to understand what these things are and how they are related to each other (if they are), thank you all very much in advance!
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DHCP is the way computers get IP addresses and IPv6 are a type of IP addresses.
For computers to talk to each other they need to know who the one they are talking to is. For internet and other traffic using the internet protocol (IP), IP addresses are used.
Right now much of the internet still runs on IPv4 addresses but we are supposed to be moving to IPv6 since likely before you have been alive (even if you are 25 instead of literally 5).
DHCP can give out both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Basically when you turn a computer on and it doesn’t have an IP addressee configure it scream out into the void for anyone who is there to listen that it is there and wants an address. A DHCP server responds by assigning it an addressee that it uses from that point on.
DHCP in addition to just giving out addresses can also give out basic network configuration information like who the DNS server is and where the network gateway is and things like that.
Chances are you have a little box from your internet provider that functions as a DHCP server (and also as a DNS server a router and thousand other things).
Chances are also that it still just gives out IPv4 addresses.
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