December 2019
Beginner
510 pages
12h 7m
English
Content preview from Networking Fundamentals
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Link-local addresses
A link-local address is similar to an IPv4 APIPA address. They are not designed to be routable across the internet. A Windows device is automatically assigned one of these addresses, but unlike IPv4, a Windows device can have a link-local address, as well as a unicast address. In Figure 12.2, we can see a link-local address in use:
Figure 12.2: Link-local address
Link-local addresses all begin with FE80::/10. While it is not Windows-specific, a lot of network administrators will allocate the same link-local address to each interface on a router. As you may recall, each interface on a router connects to a different network. ...