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Routingis a primary function of IPv6. Datagrams labeled with a source and destination IP address are handed to IP. IP examines the destination address on each datagram, compares it to a locally maintained route table, and decides what action to take.

The following list shows methods for maintaining the IPv6 route tables:

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