Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: A Guide To Ipv6 Addressing
Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and it’s going to help in your real-world networking career as well. IPv6 can be confusing at first, but it’s like anything else in Cisco or networking as a whole – learn one part at a time, master the fundamentals, and you’re on your way to success. In today’s article we’re going to take a look at IPv6 address types.
In IPv4, a unicast address is simply an address used to represent a single host, where multicast addresses represent a group of hosts and broadcasts represent all hosts.
In IPv6, it’s not quite that simple. There are actually different types of unicast addresses, each with its own separate function. This allows IPv6 to get data where it’s supposed to go quicker than IPv4 while conserving router resources.
IPv6 offers two kinds of local addresses, link-local and site-local. Site-local addresses allow devices in the same organization, or site, to exchange data. Site-local addresses are IPv6’s equivalent to IPv4’s private...