IPv6 Addressing

~ Iain
  • Address size moved from 32-bit (IPv4) to 128-bit (IPv6)
  • Divided into eight groups of 4 HEX characters: 2001:0050:0000:0000:0000:0AB4:1E3B:98AA
  • Rule 1: Eliminate groups of consecutive zeros: 2001:0050::0AB4:1E2B:98AA
  • Rule 2: Drop leading zeros 2001:50::AB4:1E2B:98AA
  • Loopback address is ::1

 

 

Published by Iain

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.