CCNA 200-301 Portable Command Guide, 5th Edition

Chapter 5. IPv6 Addressing—How It Works

This chapter provides information concerning the following topics:

• IPv6: A very brief introduction

• What does an IPv6 address look like?

• Reducing the notation of an IPv6 address

  • Rule 1: Omit leading 0s

  • Rule 2: Omit all-0s hextet

  • Combining rule 1 and rule 2

• Prefix length notation

• IPv6 address types

  • Unicast addresses

    • Global unicast

    • Link-local

    • Loopback

    • Unspecified

    • Unique local

    • IPv4 embedded

  • Multicast addresses

    • Well-known

    • Solicited-node

  • Anycast addresses

Note

This chapter is meant to be a very high-level overview of IPv6 addressing. For an excellent overview of IPv6, I strongly recommend you read Rick Graziani’s book from Cisco Press: IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding ...