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Destination Prefix-Length– A decimal value indicating how many contiguous bits (from the left) of the address comprise the prefix (i.e., the network portion of the address).

Next Header – Identifies the type of header immediately following the IPv6 header. (Range: 0-255)

Optional internet-layer information is encoded in separate headers that may be placed between the IPv6 header and the upper-layer header in a packet. There are a small number of such extension headers, each identified by a distinct Next Header value. IPv6 supports the values defined for the IPv4 Protocol field in RFC 1700, and includes these commonly used headers:

0 : Hop-by-Hop Options (RFC 2460)

6 : TCP Upper-layer Header (RFC 1700)

17:UDP Upper-layer Header (RFC 1700)

43:Routing (RFC 2460)

44:Fragment (RFC 2460)

51:Authentication (RFC 2402)

50:Encapsulating Security Payload (RFC 2406)

60:Destination Options (RFC 2460)

DSCP – DSCP priority level. (Range: 0-63)

Flow Label – A label for packets belonging to a particular traffic “flow” for which the sender requests special handling by IPv6 routers, such as non-default quality of service or “real-time” service (see RFC 2460). (Range: 0-16777215)

A flow label is assigned to a flow by the flow's source node. New flow labels must be chosen pseudo-randomly and uniformly from the range 1 to FFFFF hexadecimal. The purpose of the random allocation is to make any set of bits within the Flow Label field suitable for use as a hash key by routers, for looking up the state associated with the flow.

A flow identifies a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a particular (unicast or multicast) destination for which the source desires special handling by the intervening routers. The nature of that special handling might be conveyed to the routers by a control protocol, such as a resource reservation protocol, or by information within the flow's packets themselves, e.g., in a hop-by-hop option. A flow is uniquely identified by the combination of a source address and a non-zero flow label. Packets that do not belong to a flow carry a flow label of zero.

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