Telematics Chapter 6: Network Layer - Freie Universität Berlin

IPv6 Addresses: Representation of addresses
● Some simplifications
● Leading zeros within a group can be omitted: 0123 � 123
● Groups of 16 zero bits ‘0000’ can be replaced by a pair of colons ‘::’
8000:0000:0000:0000:0123:4567:89AB:CDEF � 8000::123:4567:89AB:CDEF
● The "::" can only appear once in an address
● Example:
The following addresses
2001:DB8:0:0:8:800:200C:417A a unicast address
FF01:0:0:0:0:0:0:101 a multicast address
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 the loopback address
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 the unspecified addresses
may be represented as
2001:DB8::8:800:200C:417A a unicast address
FF01::101 a multicast address
::1 the loopback address
:: the unspecified addresses
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