On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Nir Arad wrote: > > I am reading RFC 2464, and I have encountered chapter 6, titled > "Address Mapping -- Unicast". > I have to admit I still didn't read the related RFC 2461 (Neighbor > Discovery),
Then please do this.
> but I was wondering if someone would be
> willing to provide a short explanation of what is the purpose of this mapping.
The purpose of mapping IPv6 addresses to Ethernet addresses is to map
IPv6 addresses to Ethernet addresses, so that your IPv6 packets can be
sent as Ethernet packets to the Ethernet address of your next hop host.
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