[CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

Sun Feb 27 17:16:38 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 2/27/11 9:38 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>
> Yes, IPv6 gives every site a lot of more possibilities.  And in IPv6 each NIC
> can have multiple IPv6 addresses, without using aliasing which is needed for
> IPv4.  If you want to allocate 30 IPv6 addresses to one adapter, you may do so
> very easily.  Just use 'ip -6 addr add<ipv6 addr>  dev eth0'

Is there any difference in efficiency in how well the NIC hardware filters the 
assigned addresses?   What about multicast - is there a good place to look for 
documentation?

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   Les Mikesell
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