IPV6 CHAPTER 3 - Making IPV6 Address Short

•We saw that IPV6 is 128bits and represented in Hexadecimal number system.

•Binary Number System Representation

•    0010000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000011000010100 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 1011110110000000

•Hexadecimal Number System Representation

•2001:0000:0000:0000:0614:0000:0000:BD8

Making IPV6 address short

2001:0000:0000:0000:0614:0000:0000:BD80

•Rule 1 :- Leading Zeros can be discarded.

2001:0:0:0:614:0:0:BD80

•Rule 2:- We can once replace consecutive two or more blocks containing zeros by double colon : :

2001::614:0:0:BD80

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