IPv6 multicast addresses: Is the Group ID field effectively 112 bits or 32 bits?
- by Jeremy Friesner
Hi all,
I'm trying to understand the rules for choosing an IPv6 multicast address Group ID, and the RFC seems somewhat inconsistent. For example, in RFC 2373 section 2.7 this diagram is shown:
| 8 | 4 | 4 | 112 bits |
+------ -+----+----+---------------------------------------------+
|11111111|flgs|scop|…