
158 Part Two • IPv6 Protocols
8.6 Summary
Although this chapter includes considerable detail about how to differen-
tiate different types of special IPv6 addresses, as well as how to represent
them in written documents, the most important facts relate to the way that
IPv6 addresses can be aggregated for routing purposes (see Chapter 14 for
more on routing) and the general IPv6 unicast address format using the
IEEE EUI-64 interface identifier.
The next chapter returns to the IPv6 header, specifically detailing the use
of IPv6 header extensions to enable IP options. Unlike IPv4 options, which
are limited to no more than 40 octets of data in a special-case ...