QuestionQ444

IP Connectivity

Drag and drop the characteristic on the left to the correct IPv6 address type on the right.

Drag & Drop
publicly routable in the same way as IPv4 addresses
sends packets to a group address rather than a single address
never used as a source address
routable and reachable via the Internet
Global Unicast Address
Multicast
Explanation

IPv6 global unicast addresses are the Internet-routable public unicast addresses, comparable to public IPv4 addressing. IPv6 multicast addresses identify a group of receivers, so traffic is sent to multiple members rather than one interface, and multicast addresses are destination-only addresses, not valid source addresses. Cisco IPv6 documentation describes global unicast addresses as aggregatable addresses used upward through organizations to ISPs, and multicast as group addressing; multicast transmission uses a unicast source address.

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