Practical TCP/IP and Ethernet Networking for Industry

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that node’s interface’s unicast addresses may be used as an identifier for the node. A

single interface may be assigned multiple IPv6 addresses of any type.

There are three types of IPv6 addresses. These are unicast, anycast, and multicast.

• Unicast addresses identify a single interface

• Anycast addresses identify a set of interfaces such that a packet sent to an

anycast address will be delivered to one member of the set

• Multicast addresses identify a group of interfaces, such that a packet sent to

a multicast address is delivered to all of the interfaces in the group. There are

no broadcast ...