ZXR10ZSRV2CongurationGuide(IPv6)
The112-bitmulticastIDeldidentiesamulticastgroupwithinaspeciedrange
permanentlyortemporarily.
AnycastAddress
Amulticastaddresscanbesharedbymanynodesinasense.Allthenodesofthe
membersofamulticastaddressexpecttoreceiveallthepacketssenttothisaddress.A
routerconnectingtovedifferentlocalEthernetnetworksshouldforwardacopyofthese
multicastpacketstoeachnetworkrespectively(supposingatleastonenodeofeach
networksubscriberstothismulticastaddress).
Anycastaddressesaresimilartomulticastaddresses.Althoughthetwoareinthesame
casethatananycastaddresscanbesharedbymultiplenodes,onlyonenodeofananycast
addressexpectstoreceivethepacketsenttotheanycastaddress.
Anycastishelpfulinprovidingservices,especiallythoserequiringnorelationshipbetween
clientandserver,suchas,adomainnameserverandatimeserver.Adomainname
serverisnothingbutanameserver,whichprovidesthesameperformancewhetheritis
locatedcloselyorremotely.
Similarly,acloselylocatedtimeserverispreferableintermsofaccuracy.Therefore,when
ahostsendsarequesttoananycastaddresstoobtaininformation,itisthenearestserver
associatedtothisanycastaddressthatshallrespond.
AnycastaddressesareallocatedoutsideofthenormalIPv6unicastaddressspace.
Anycastaddressescannotbedistinguishedfromunicastaddressesintheirforms,and
eachmemberofananycastaddressshouldbeexplicitlyconguredtoidentifyananycast
address.
2.1.2AddressFormat
AnIPv4addressconsistsoffourpartsseparatedbydots,thatis,fournumbersseparated
bydots.ThefollowingaresomelegalIPv4addressesexpressedbydecimalinteger:
0.5.3.1,127.0.0.1,201.199.244.101.
AnIPv4addressisexpressedasagroupoffour2-bithexintegersorfour8-bitbinary
integers,ofwhichthelatteroneisseldomused.
ThelengthofanIPv6addressisfourtimesgreaterthananIPv4address,andthe
complicacyofexpressionforanIPv6addressisalsofourtimesgreaterthananIPv4
address.AnIPv6addresscanbebasicallyexpressedasX:X:X:X:X:X:X:X,amongwhich
Xis4-bithexintegers(16-bit).Eachnumbercontainsfourbits,eachintegercontainsfour
numbersandeachaddresscontainseightintegers.Therearetotally128bits(4x4x8=
128).ThefollowingaresomelegalIPv6addresses:
CDCD:910A:2222:5498:8475:1111:3900:2020
1030:0:0:0:C9B4:FF12:48AA:1A2B
2000:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
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