ZXR10T600/T1200UserManual(IPv6Volume)
Allocation
PrexFractionofAddress
Space
Unallocated
111111100
1/512
Linklocalunicast
address
1111111010[FE8]1/1024
Sitelocalunicast
address
1111111011[FEC]1/1024
Multicastaddress11111111[FF]1/256
Note:
Thehexnumberinthe[]inthistablereferstothestartingand
endinghexnumbersofthecorrespondingaddress.
BroadcastaddressinIPv6isnotvalidanymore.RFC2373denes
threetypesofIPv6address:
�Unicast
Itistheidentierofasingleinterface.Thepacketssenttoa
unicastaddresswillbetransmittedtotheinterfacewiththis
addressidentier .
�Multicast
Itistheidentierofagroupofinterfaces.Theseinterfaces
belongtodifferentnodes.Thepacketssenttoamulticastad-
dresswillbetransmittedtoalltheinterfaceswiththisaddress
identier .
�Anycast
Itistheidentierofagroupofinterfaces.Theseinterfacesbe-
longtodifferentnodes.Thepacketssenttoananycastaddress
willbetransmittedtoaninterfacewiththisaddressidentier
(selectingthenearestonebycalculatingthedistancebasedon
routingprotocol).
AnIPv6unicastaddresscanberegardedasanentitywithtwo
elds.Oneeldisusedtoidentifynetworksandtheotherisused
toidentifyinterfacesofnodesonthisnetwork.Inthesubsequent
descriptionofthespecicunicastaddresstypes,theuserwillnd
thatthenetworkidentiercanbedividedintoseveralparts,each
ofwhichidentiesdifferentnetworkpart.
�UnicastAddress
FunctionsofanIPv6unicastaddressaresubjecttoClassless
InterInter-DomainRouting(CIDR),whichisthesameasthat
ofanIPv4address.Thatis,anaddressisdividedintotwo
partsuponaspecicboundary.Thehighbitpartofanaddress
includesprexeforroutingandthelowbitpartincludesiden-
tiersofnetworkinterfaces.
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