Leading zeroes: all the leading zeroes within a group can be omitted: “0008” would become “8”Ī string of consecutive zeroes can be replaced by the string “::”. Since IPv6 addresses are very long to write, there are some semplifications and compressions that you can use to shorten them.
You can create a new IPv6 object using uppercase letters, but they will be converted. Letters in an IPv6 address are usually written downcase, as per RFC. An IPv6 address is generally written as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits, each group representing 16 bits or two octect.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long, in contrast with IPv4 addresses which are only 32 bits long. IPAddress::IPv6 - IP version 6 address manipulation library Synopsis require ' ipaddress ' DescriptionĬlass IPAddress::IPv6 is used to handle IPv6 type addresses.
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