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10 Things You Should Know About IPv6 Addressing PDF
10 Things You Should Know About IPv6 Addressing PDF
[FE80:CD00:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C]
If this were a real address, any leading zero within a section could be suppressed. The result would look like this:
[FE80:CD00:0:CDE:1257:0:211E:729C]
As you can see, suppressing leading zeros goes a long way toward shortening the address.
Real IPv6 addresses tend to contain long sections of nothing but zeros, which can also be suppressed. For
example, consider the address shown below:
[FE80:CD00:0000:0000:0000:0000:211E:729C]
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In this address, there are four sequential sections separated by zeros. Rather than simply suppressing the
leading zeros, you can get rid of all of the sequential zeros and replace them with two colons. The two colons tell
the operating system that everything in between them is a zero. The address shown above then becomes:
[FE80:CD00::211E:729C]
You must remember two things about inline zero suppression. First, you can suppress a section only if it contains
nothing but zeros. For example, you will notice that the second part of the address shown above still contains
some trailing zeros. Those zeros were retained because there are non-zero characters in the section. Second,
you can use the double colon notation only once in any given address.
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Published: October 27, 2010
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