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. --- Lars Hansson