An Internet Protocol Version 6 address is a numeric label that is used to identify and locate a network interface of a computer or a network node participating in a computer network using IPv6.
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12 Facts About IPv6 address
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An anycast IPv6 address is assigned to a group of interfaces, usually belonging to different nodes.
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Multicast IPv6 address is used by multiple hosts that acquire the multicast IPv6 address destination by participating in the multicast distribution protocol among the network routers.
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The 64-bit interface identifier is either automatically generated from the interface's MAC IPv6 address using the modified EUI-64 format, obtained from a DHCPv6 server, automatically established randomly, or assigned manually.
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Link-local IPv6 address is based on the interface identifier, but uses a different format for the network prefix.
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An IPv6 address is represented as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits, each group representing 16 bits The groups are separated by colons .
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The IPv4-mapped IPv6 address is written as, thus expressing clearly the original IPv4 address that was mapped to IPv6.
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Multicast addresses, the four least-significant bits of the second address octet identify the address scope, i e the domain in which the multicast packet should be propagated.
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The IPv6 address space is assigned to the RIRs in large blocks of up to.
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Each IPv6 address that is bound to an interface has a fixed lifetime.
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Such an IPv6 address is generated using two hash functions that take several inputs.
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Generation of a stable privacy IPv6 address is based on a hash function that uses several stable parameters.
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