indicates that the multicast address is assigned temporarily by the IANA. e 4-bit
scope eld denes the scope that a multicast address can cover. e commonly dened
scope values are dened in Table 3.15.
ere are several special multicast group addresses. For example, the multicast group
address FF02:0:0:0:0:0:1 is the multicast address for “all hosts” in the link-local scope
and FF05:0:0:0:0:0:2 is the multicast address for “all routers” in the site-local scope.
3.3.3.4.3 Anycast e communication between any sender and one of the receivers
in a group of hosts is called anycast. Anycast is used in a situation where ...
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