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Internet has been growing extremely fast so the IPv4 addresses are quickly approaching complete
depletion. Although many organizations already use Network Address Translators (NATs) to map
multiple private address spaces to a single public IP address but they have to face with other problems
from NAT (the use of the same private address, security). Moreover, many other devices than PC &
laptop are requiring an IP address to go to the Internet. To solve these problems in long-term, a new
version of the IP protocol version 6 (IPv6) was created and developed.
IPv6 was created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a standards body, as a replacement to
IPv4 in 1998. So what happened with IPv5? IP Version 5 was defined for experimental reasons and
never was deployed.
While IPv4 uses 32 bits to address the IP (provides approximately 232 = 4,294,967,296 unique addresses
but in fact about 3.7 billion addresses are assignable because the IPv4 addressing system separates the
addresses into classes and reserves addresses for multicasting, testing, and other specific uses), IPv6
uses up to 128 bits which provides 2128 addresses or approximately 3.4 * 1038 addresses. Well, maybe
we should say it is extremely extremely extremely huge :)
IPv6 Address Types
Address Type Description
Unicast

One to One (Global, Link local, Site local)

+ An address destined for a single interface.

Multicast

One to Many
+ An address for a set of interfaces
+ Delivered to a group of interfaces identified by that address.
+ Replaces IPv4 broadcast

Anycast

One to Nearest (Allocated from Unicast)

+ Delivered to the closest interface as determined by the IGP

A single interface may be assigned multiple IPv6 addresses of any type (unicast, anycast, multicast)
IPv6 address format

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Format:
x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x where x is a 16 bits hexadecimal field and x represents four hexadecimal digits.
An example of IPv6:
2001:0000:5723:0000:0000:D14E:DBCA:0764
There are:
+ 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal digits.
+ Each group represents 16 bits (4 hexa digits * 4 bit)
+ Separator is :
+ Hex digits are not case sensitive, so DBCA is same as dbca or DBca
IPv6 (128-bit) address contains two parts:
+ The first 64-bits is known as the prefix. The prefix includes the network and subnet address. Because
addresses are allocated based on physical location, the prefix also includes global routing information.
The 64-bit prefix is often referred to as the global routing prefix.
+ The last 64-bits is the interface ID. This is the unique address assigned to an interface.
Note: Addresses are assigned to interfaces (network connections), not to the host. Each interface can
have more than one IPv6 address.
Rules for abbreviating IPv6 Addresses:
+ Leading zeros in a field are optional
2001:0DA8:E800:0000:0260:3EFF:FE47:0001 can be written as
2001:DA8:E800:0:260:3EFF:FE47:1
+ Successive fields of 0 are represented as ::, but only once in an address:
2001:0DA8:E800:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 -> 2001:DA8:E800::1
Other examples:
FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 => FF02::1
3FFE:0501:0008:0000:0260:97FF:FE40:EFAB = 3FFE:501:8:0:260:97FF:FE40:EFAB =
3FFE:501:8::260:97FF:FE40:EFAB
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 => ::1
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 => ::
IPv6 Addressing In Use
IPv6 uses the / notation to denote how many bits in the IPv6 address represent the subnet.
The full syntax of IPv6 is
ipv6-address/prefix-length

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where
+ ipv6-address is the 128-bit IPv6 address
+ /prefix-length is a decimal value representing how many of the left most contiguous bits of the
address comprise the prefix.
Lets analyze an example:
2001:C:7:ABCD::1/64 is really
2001:000C:0007:ABCD:0000:0000:0000:0001/64
+ The first 64-bits 2001:000C:0007:ABCD is the address prefix
+ The last 64-bits 0000:0000:0000:0001 is the interface ID
+ /64 is the prefix length (/64 is well-known and also the prefix length in most cases)
In the next part, we will understand more about each prefix of an IPv6 address.
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February 20th, 2015
does this mean that when we are assigning static IPv6 to our computer/host for example, we can
cause IP address conflict to possibly another host that is located on another place or organization?

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