ZXR10T600/T1200UserManual(IPv6Volume)
Hex
DecimalValue
44
Unallocated
55
Site-localrange
66
Unallocated
77
Unallocated
88
Institution-local
range
99
Unallocated
10
A
Unallocated
11B
Unallocated
12C
Unallocated
13
D
Unallocated
14E
Globalrange
15F
Reserved
�GroupIDeld
The112-bitmulticastIDeldidentiesamulticastgroup
withinaspeciedrangepermanentlyortemporarily.
�AnycastAddress
Amulticastaddresscanbesharedbymanynodesinasense.
Allthenodesofthemembersofamulticastaddressexpect
toreceiveallthepacketssenttothisaddress.Aroutercon-
nectingtovedifferentlocalEthernetnetworksshallforward
acopyofthesemulticastpacketstoeachnetworkrespectively
(supposingatleastonenodeofeachnetworksubscribstothis
multicastaddress).
Anycastaddressesaresimilartomulticastaddresses.Al-
thoughthetwoareinthesamecasethatananycastaddress
canbesharedbymultiplenodes,onlyonenodeofananycast
addressexpectstoreceivethepacketsenttotheanycast
address.
Anycastishelpfulinprovidingservices,especiallythosere-
quiringnorelationshipbetweenclientandserver ,suchas,a
domainnameserverandatimeserver .Adomainnameserver
isnothingbutanameserver ,whichprovidesthesameperfor-
mancewhetheritislocatedcloselyorremotely.
Similarly,acloselylocatedtimeserverispreferableinterms
ofaccuracy.Therefore,whenahostsendsarequesttoan
anycastaddresstoobtaininformation,itisthenearestserver
associatedtothisanycastaddressthatshallrespond.
AnycastaddressesareallocatedoutsideofthenormalIPv6uni-
castaddressspace.Anycastaddressescannotbedistinguished
fromunicastaddressesintheirforms,andeachmemberof
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