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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Which address type is not supported in IPv6?

A	private
B	multicast
C	anycast
D	broadcast

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -There aren’t broadcast addresses in IPv6. Instead, in IPv6 this functionality is done using special multicast groups-all-IPv6 devices multicast address and a solicited-node multicast address.

Detailed explanation-2: -Multicast: An identifier for a set of interfaces (typically belonging to different nodes). A packet sent to a multicast address is delivered to all interfaces identified by that address. There are no broadcast addresses in IPv6, their function being superseded by multicast addresses.

Detailed explanation-3: -Broadcast has been removed because Multicast is better, simply put. Multicast didn’t exist when IPv4 was created. Switching was barely a thing as well, so unicast and broadcast were almost the same thing, in terms of how they caused the hubs on a LAN segment to behave. What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

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