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by vvG94KbDUtRa 2197 days ago
ugh why is ipv6 impossible to understand :/
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detaro 2196 days ago
Is the notation the problem here? IPs have 16 bytes now, so the notation is a bit more compact: hex instead of decimal numbers, and :: is a shortcut meaning "replace with as many zeros as necessary to fill the address to 16 bytes"
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chungy 2197 days ago
It's not. Think IPv4 but bigger.
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