Global Unicast Prefix Assignment Example
Practice Exercise
IPv6 standards reserve the range of addresses inside the 2000::/3 prefix as global unicast addresses. This address range includes all IPv6 addresses that begin with binary 001, or as more easily recognized, all IPv6 addresses that begin with a 2 or 3. IANA assigns global unicast IPv6 addresses as public and globally unique IPv6 addresses, as discussed using the example previously shown in Figure 3-1, allowing hosts using those addresses to communicate through the Internet without the need for NAT. In other words, these addresses fit the purest design for how to implement IPv6 for the global ...
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