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		Borg3 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6 Now, if only those people who designed IPv6 were smarter.. Hex aint that bad, LONG hex addresses are pain to use. Now, lets say you have LAN like this [::1:0:0/56]. So, ::1:0:24 is easy to remember right? Managable? right?.. Also, bonus for :: shortening is, you immediatly know what are you dealing with, ::1 is loopback, ::1:1 is LL, ::1:0:1 is LAN.. everything else is Internet. The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

mrsssnake 18 days ago [–]

> The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

So anyway it gives 128bits in total, 64 for network and 64 for node.

But I wish there was a better way to write just the local node part and global part being taken automatically.

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