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Setting an IP Address
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Current Address Table
• IPv6 Address – IPv6 address assigned to this interface.
In addition to the unicast addresses assigned to an interface, a node is required to
join the all-nodes multicast addresses FF01::1 and FF02::1 for all IPv6 nodes
within scope 1 (interface-local) and scope 2 (link-local), respectively.
FF01::1/16 is the transient node-local multicast address for all attached IPv6
nodes, and FF02::1/16 is the link-local multicast address for all attached IPv6
nodes. The node-local multicast address is only used for loopback transmission of
multicast traffic. Link-local multicast addresses cover the same types as used by
link-local unicast addresses, including all nodes (FF02::1), all routers (FF02::2),
and solicited nodes (FF02::1:FFXX:XXXX) as described below.
A node is also required to compute and join the associated solicited-node multicast
addresses for every unicast and anycast address it is assigned. IPv6 addresses
that differ only in the high-order bits, e.g. due to multiple high-order prefixes
associated with different aggregations, will map to the same solicited-node
address, thereby reducing the number of multicast addresses a node must join. In
this example, FF02::1:FF90:0/104 is the solicited-node multicast address which is
formed by taking the low-order 24 bits of the address and appending those bits to
the prefix.
Note that the solicited-node multicast address (link-local scope FF02) is used to
resolve the MAC addresses for neighbor nodes since IPv6 does not support the
broadcast method used by the Address Resolution Protocol in IPv4.
• Prefix Length – This field includes the prefix length, address type (Global,
Link-local, Multicast), and configuration method if manually set.
• Address Type – Global, Link-local or Multicast.