March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
As with IPv4, an IPv6 address is a unique and logical network layer identifier assigned to each device connected to the network. An IPv6 address is of 128-bit size and comprises a Network Prefix and Interface ID. While IPv4 is represented as four octets of decimals, an IPv6 address is represented as eight blocks of 16-bit hex values with colons as demarcation. The format of an IPv6 address is as follows:

The Network Prefix is used to identify the network in which the host resides, while the Interface ID is used to identify the host within the network. While the 128-bit representation is made efficient by referring the address ...
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