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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to IPv4 because IPv4 address space is being exhausted. Which one of the following descriptions about IPv6 is correct?

  1. Addresses are not hierarchical and are assigned at random.

  2. Broadcasts have been eliminated and replaced with multicasts.

  3. There are 2.7 billion available addresses.

  4. An interface can only be configured with one IPv6 address.
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Explanation

In IPv6, broadcast transmissions have been completely removed and replaced with specific multicast addresses to reduce network overhead. The other options are incorrect because IPv6 addresses are strictly hierarchical, an interface can support multiple IPv6 addresses simultaneously, and the address space size is vastly larger than 2.7 billion.

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