Multicast Group Addresses and Token Ring Functional Addresses (Chapter 7)

Table B-11 shows how IPv6 multicast addresses are mapped to Token Ring functional addresses.

Table B-11. Mapping IPv6 multicast addresses to Token Ring functional addresses

MAC functional address (canonical)

Multicast addresses

03-00-80-00-00-00

All-nodes (FF01::1 and FF02::1)

Solicited-node (FF02:0:0:0:0.1:FFxx:xxxx)

03-00-40-00-00-00

All Routers (FF0X::2)

03-00-00-80-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 000

03-00-00-40-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 001

03-00-00-20-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 010

03-00-00-10-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 011

03-00-00-08-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 100

03-00-00-04-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 101

03-00-00-02-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 110

03-00-00-01-00-00

Any other multicast address with three least-significant bits = 111

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