Newer IP addressing scheme that has addresses of 128-bit.
It is comprised of 8 fields of 16-bit numbers commonly represented in Hexadecimal.
Writing Conventions
- Leading
0’s within a field can be removed.:0dc8:→:dc8: - A field of
0000can be omitted and and written just as: - consecutive fields of
0000can be written as::
however. You can only have one of these ::in an address. Having 2 would mean this address::1111::is indecipherable as we would not know how big the zero chunks are
Multiple IPv6
Each device comes with multiple IPv6 addresses.