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An IPv6 packet is the smallest message entity exchanged using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Packets consist of control information for addressing and routing and a payload of user data. The control information in IPv6 packets is subdivided into a mandatory fixed header and optional extension headers.
IPv6 addresses are assigned to organizations in much larger blocks as compared to IPv4 address assignments—the recommended allocation is a / 48 block which contains 2 80 addresses, being 2 48 or about 2.8 × 10 14 times larger than the entire IPv4 address space of 2 32 addresses and about 7.2 × 10 16 times larger than the / 8 blocks of IPv4 ...
On the Internet, data is transmitted in the form of network packets. IPv6 specifies a new packet format, designed to minimize packet header processing by routers. [2] [14] Because the headers of IPv4 packets and IPv6 packets are
IPv6 IPv6 Encapsulation (6to4 and 6in4) RFC 2473: 0x2A 42 SDRP Source Demand Routing Protocol: RFC 1940: 0x2B 43 IPv6-Route Routing Header for IPv6: RFC 8200: 0x2C 44 IPv6-Frag Fragment Header for IPv6: RFC 8200: 0x2D 45 IDRP Inter-Domain Routing Protocol: 0x2E 46 RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol: RFC 2205: 0x2F 47 GRE Generic Routing ...
The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), or simply Neighbor Discovery (ND), is a protocol of the Internet protocol suite used with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). [1]: §1 It operates at the internet layer of the Internet model, [2] and is responsible for gathering various information required for network communication, including the configuration of local connections and the domain name ...
ICMPv6 provides a minimal level of message integrity verification by the inclusion of a 16-bit checksum in its header. The checksum is calculated starting with a pseudo-header of IPv6 header fields according to the IPv6 standard, [6] which consists of the source and destination addresses, the packet length and the next header field, the latter of which is set to the value 58.
Multicast address scope IPv6 address [note 1] IPv4 equivalent [19]: §8 Scope [28] Purpose ffx0::/16, ffxf::/16: Reserved ffx1::/16: Interface-local Packets with this destination address may not be sent over any network link, but must remain within the current node; this is the multicast equivalent of the unicast loopback address. ffx2::/16: ...
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 6 (DHCPv6) is a network protocol for configuring Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) hosts with IP addresses, IP prefixes, default route, local segment MTU, and other configuration data required to operate in an IPv6 network.