Chapter 5. Global Unicast Address
Global unicast addresses (GUAs) are globally routable and reachable in the IPv6 Internet; they are equivalent to public IPv4 addresses. GUA addresses are also known as aggregatable global unicast addresses, as mentioned in Chapter 4, “IPv6 Address Representation and Address Types.” The GUA address is one of several types of IPv6 unicast addresses shown in Figure 5-1.
Figure 5-1 IPv6 Global Unicast Address
This chapter elaborates on the following points mentioned in Chapter 4:
GUA addresses are equivalent to public ...
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