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Uwimana Jean Lambert replied to the discussion Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses in the forum IPv6 Foundations 7 months ago

7 months ago

Reply to Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses

Hello everyone 👋,

I was practicing how to shorten IPv6 addresses and worked on this example:
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:0029

After removing leading zeros and replacing consecutive zero blocks with ::, I got 2001:db8::ff00:42:29.

Can someone please confirm if this is the correct shortened form? And are there any common mistakes to…

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Uwimana Jean Lambert replied to the discussion Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses in the forum IPv6 Foundations 7 months ago

7 months ago

Reply to Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses

Given IPv6:
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:0029

Step 1: Remove leading zeros in each block

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2001 → stays 2001
0db8 → becomes db8
0000 → becomes 0
0000 → becomes 0
0000 → becomes 0
ff00 → stays ff00
0042 → becomes 42
0029 → becomes 29

Now it looks like this:
2001:db8:0:0:0:ff00:42:29

Step 2: Replace consecutive…

Uwimana Jean Lambert replied to the discussion Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses in the forum IPv6 Foundations 7 months ago

7 months ago

Reply to Understand and Work with IPv6 Addresses

Dear Monica You have clearly captured the core aspects of IPv6: mainly, the extended 128-bit address and the introduction of address types, such as unicast, multicast, and anycast. I would add that one of the key features of IPv6 is that it does not require NAT, thus providing true end-to-end connectivity, which increases performance…