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Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Anycast<br />

Sending a packet to a generic address to get a specific service from the “nearest”<br />

instance. This puts the burden of determining which instance to deliver it to on the<br />

routing system.<br />

Requires defining a router entry <strong>for</strong> each anycast address.<br />

Subnet Anycast Address:<br />

Subnet prefix<br />

(n bits)<br />

0<br />

(128-n bits)<br />

Thus the host ID of zero is treated as the subnet.<br />

Maguire Anycast 10: 28 of 54<br />

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

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