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A wildcard mask can be thought of as an inverted subnet mask. For example, a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 (11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 2) inverts to a wildcard mask of 0.0.0.255 (00000000.00000000.00000000.11111111 2). A wild card mask is a matching rule. [2] The rule for a wildcard mask is: 0 means that the equivalent bit must match
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.
The IPv6 subnet size is standardized by fixing the size of the host identifier portion of an address to 64 bits. The addressing architecture of IPv6 is defined in RFC 4291 and allows three different types of transmission: unicast , anycast and multicast .
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.
A unique local address (ULA) is an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address in the address range fc00:: / 7. [1] These addresses are non-globally reachable [2] (routable only within the scope of private networks, but not the global IPv6 Internet).
In IPv6 this is the only standards-based form to denote network or routing prefixes. For example, the IPv4 network 192.0.2.0 with the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 is written as 192.0.2.0 / 24, and the IPv6 notation 2001:db8:: / 32 designates the address 2001:db8:: and its network prefix consisting of the most significant 32 bits.
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 large address size of IPv6 permitted worldwide route summarization and guaranteed sufficient address pools at each site. The standard subnet size for IPv6 networks is a / 64 block, which is required for the operation of stateless address autoconfiguration . [ 17 ]