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IPv6 address categories

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IPv6 address categories

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to see some different types of IPv6 addresses, each of which have a different job. Let's begin with global unicast. A global unicast IPv6 address allows us to do one-to-one communication with IPv6 addresses that are routable on the public Internet. And the global unicast address has a 001 as its first three bits. So we can say that it has a prefix of 2000::/3. That means that's what we would get if we're just setting the first three bits and leaving all the other bits to zeros. We've also got multicast IPv6 addresses. And a multicast always, always, always begins with an FF in the first two hexadecimal positions. In fact we say the prefix is FF00::/8. And this can be used for PCs to join, where they could join this multicast group, identified by this address, if they want to receive traffic being sent to that group. So here at PC A it's sending traffic to FF04::10, that's a…

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