Anycast Addresses
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Anycast is a new feature of IPv6.
Anycast is 'one-to-one-of-many'.
Multiple routers are configured with the same IPv6 address.
They use a routing protocol to advertise the address.
When hosts send packets to that destination address, routers will forward it to the nearest router configured with that IP address (based on routing metric).
There is no specific address range for anycast addresses. Use a regular unicast address (global unicast, unique local) and specify it as an anycast address:
