March 2019
Beginner
490 pages
12h 40m
English
book
Learning Python Networking - Second Edition
by José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
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Representation of IPv6 addresses
The size of an IPv6 address is 128 bits. Because the IPv6 addresses are so large, they are difficult to represent in decimal notation as we do in IPv4. That is why to represent an IPv6 address it was decided to use 8 groups of 16 bits in hexadecimal notation, separating each group by the colon character, :. Here, we will see an example of IPv6 address:
fe80: 0000: 0000: 0000: ac3e: 7bff: fe33: 5fb0
Among the different rules that IPv6 has for representation, one of them is that you can suppress the leading zeros in each group to represent the address in the following way:
fe80: 0: 0: 0: ac3e: 7bff: fe33: 5fb0
In addition to this simplification, there is another one that indicates that several groups of consecutive ...
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