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Thread is an IPv6-based, low-power mesh networking technology for Internet of things (IoT) products. [1] The Thread protocol specification is available at no cost; however, this requires agreement and continued adherence to an end-user license agreement (EULA), which states "Membership in Thread Group is necessary to implement, practice, and ship Thread technology and Thread Group specifications."
With the default value of 64, ranges with fewer IPv6 addresses than a /64 allocation are not considered. That means the results will not include a /n range with n > 64. |results=all Show all possible summaries, including any with a range that is too large to block (/n less than /16 for IPv4 or /19 for IPv6).
IPv6 is the successor to the first addressing infrastructure of the Internet, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). In contrast to IPv4, which defined an IP address as a 32-bit value, IPv6 addresses have a size of 128 bits. Therefore, in comparison, IPv6 has a vastly enlarged address space.
The standard size of a subnet in IPv6 is 2 64 addresses, about four billion times the size of the entire IPv4 address space. Thus, actual address space utilization will be small in IPv6, but network management and routing efficiency are improved by the large subnet space and hierarchical route aggregation.
The payload length field of IPv6 (and IPv4) has a size of 16 bits, capable of specifying a maximum length of 65 535 octets for the payload. In practice, hosts determine the maximum usable payload length using Path MTU Discovery (yielding the minimum MTU along the path from sender to receiver), to avoid having to fragment packets.
Address range Number of addresses Scope Description 0.0.0.0/8 ... Formerly used for IPv6 to IPv4 relay [8] (included IPv6 address block 2002::/16). 192.168.0.0/16
The prefix length can range from 0 to 128, due to the larger number of bits in the address. However, by convention, a subnet on broadcast MAC layer networks always has 64-bit host identifiers. [ 13 ] Larger prefixes (/127) are only used on some point-to-point links between routers, for security and policy reasons.
6LoWPAN (acronym of "IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks") [1] was a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). [2] It was created with the intention of applying the Internet Protocol (IP) even to the smallest devices, [3] enabling low-power devices with limited processing capabilities to participate in the Internet of Things.