Miscellaneous IPv6 Addresses

Together, this chapter and the previous chapter have introduced most of the IPv6 addressing concepts included in this book. This short topic mentions a few remaining IPv6 addressing ideas and summarizes the topics for easy study.

First, all IPv6 hosts can use two additional special addresses:

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Image The unknown (unspecified) IPv6 address, ::, or all 0s

Image The loopback IPv6 address, ::1, or 127 binary 0s with a single 1

The unknown ...

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