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[openbeosnetteam] Re: routes
- From: Lars Hansson <lars-openbeos-net@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:46:21 +0800
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 01:50, Oliver Tappe wrote:
> I have just read up on IP6-addresses and while the subnet masking seems to
> be the same (CIDRized network addresses, only 96 bits longer >;o), but
In IPv6 *all* subnets use the /64 prefix length, all the other prefix lengths
are for routing decision and aggregation. Well, there is also /128 which is
for host-routes.
> there seem to be subtle differences in the differentiation between
> broadcast, multicast and unicast addresses.
IPv6 does not have "broadcast" the same way IPv4 does. To be more precise,
there's unicast, multicast and anycast.
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Lars Hansson
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