IPv6 Addressing
Okay folks, get out your scientific calculators. It is time to do some binary, decimal, and hexadecimal conversions. Fun! With the expanded address space associated with IPv6, the developers of IPv6 decided to leverage the hexadecimal numbering system to simplify and reduce the number of characters to identify the IPv6 address. IPv6 addresses are 128 bits in length and much longer than the 32-bit IPv4 address. But before we can dive deeper, the bit count is actually derived from the binary numbering system, which uses only 0s and 1s to represent any number. Binary numbering is also called base-2, because it uses only two numeric values, 0 and 1. Decimal uses base-10 numbering that ranges from 0 to 9, and hexadecimal uses base-16 ...
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