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Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Addressing<br />

• 128 bits long<br />

• three types: unicast, multicast, anycast<br />

Unicast<br />

Multicast<br />

Anycast<br />

identifies exactly one interface<br />

identifies a group of interfaces; a packet sent to a multicast address will be delivered to all<br />

members of the group<br />

delivered to the nearest member of the group<br />

• 2 96 times more addresses than IPv4 are available !!!<br />

IPv6 addresses per m 2<br />

Earth: 511,263,971,197,990 m 2<br />

⇒ 665,570,793,348,866,943,898,599 / m 2<br />

• pessimistic estimate with hierarchies: ~1,564 addresses / m 2<br />

• optimistic: 3,911,873,538,269,506,102 /m 2<br />

Maguire Addressing 10: 16 of 54<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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