Motivation Address Space Address Notation Address Scope Address Types Unicast Addresses Anycast Addresses Multicast Addresses Resources About Me Compression ToolAnycast Addresses
An IPv6 anycast address is an address that is assined to more than
one interfaces, with the property that a Packet sent to an anycast
address is routed to the "nearest" interface having that address,
according to The routing protocol's measure distance.
Anycast addresses are allocated from the unicast address space,
using any of the defined unicast address Formats.
When a unicast address is assigned to more than one interface, thus
turning it into an anycast address.