Cisco FirePOWER ASA 5500 series Configuration Manual page 900

IPv6 Addresses
Two colons (::) can be used only once in an IPv6 address to represent successive fields of zeros.
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An alternative form of the IPv6 format is often used when dealing with an environment that contains
both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This alternative has the format x:x:x:x:x:x:y.y.y.y, where x represent the
hexadecimal values for the six high-order parts of the IPv6 address and y represent decimal values for
the 32-bit IPv4 part of the address (which takes the place of the remaining two 16-bit parts of the IPv6
address). For example, the IPv4 address 192.168.1.1 could be represented as the IPv6 address
0:0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:192.168.1.1, or ::FFFF:192.168.1.1.
IPv6 Address Types
The following are the three main types of IPv6 addresses:
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Note There are no broadcast addresses in IPv6. Multicast addresses provide the broadcast functionality.
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Unicast Addresses
This section describes IPv6 unicast addresses. Unicast addresses identify an interface on a network node.
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Cisco Security Appliance Command Line Configuration Guide
D-6
Unicast—A unicast address is an identifier for a single interface. A packet sent to a unicast address
is delivered to the interface identified by that address. An interface may have more than one unicast
address assigned to it.
Multicast—A multicast address is an identifier for a set of interfaces. A packet sent to a multicast
address is delivered to all addresses identified by that address.
Anycast—An anycast address is an identifier for a set of interfaces. Unlike a multicast address, a
packet sent to an anycast address is only delivered to the "nearest" interface, as determined by the
measure of distances for the routing protocol.
Unicast Addresses, page D-6
Multicast Address, page D-8
Anycast Address, page D-9
Required Addresses, page D-10
Global Address, page D-7
Site-Local Address, page D-7
Link-Local Address, page D-7
IPv4-Compatible IPv6 Addresses, page D-7
Unspecified Address, page D-8
Loopback Address, page D-8
Interface Identifiers, page D-8
Appendix D Addresses, Protocols, and Ports
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