[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes that is what the spec says, but reality is always somewhat
different. There is no technical reason that an anycast address could
not be assigned to any group of hosts. The issue that must be dealt with
there are technical reasons why anycast addresses can only be
Hi Digamar,
Sorry for not replying earlier.
I have read the RFC reagrding the addressing in IPv6 and I understood that
Web servers , routers , load balancers, Gateways and Switches can have
either Unicast or Multicast or Anycast address.
Any IPv6 node can have any of these types of
Oops...
I made a mistake in the response. An anycast address can only
be assigned to a router (an IPv6 node that forwards packets), not
to a host.
So, most Web Servers could not be assigned an anycast address.
Sorry,
Margaret
At 08:28 AM 1/22/2003 -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
Hi
Margaret Wasserman wrote:
Oops...
I made a mistake in the response. An anycast address can
only be assigned to a router (an IPv6 node that forwards
packets), not to a host.
So, most Web Servers could not be assigned an anycast address.
Yes that is what the spec says, but reality is
Yes that is what the spec says, but reality is always somewhat
different. There is no technical reason that an anycast address could
not be assigned to any group of hosts. The issue that must be dealt with
there are technical reasons why anycast addresses can only be assigned
to