I thought I'd post a tiny primer on IPv6 and how it relates to IPv6 and IPv4.
It's correct that IPv6 isn't "Backwards compatible" with IPv4, in as much as the equipment must have a much longer hexadecimal address, but hexadecimal was chosen because it shortened the length of the address by a factor of 4.
IPv6, if it was designed like IPv4, would have addresses 128 digits long.
LINK>>> IPv4 wrapped to IPv6, and also converted
Essentially, an IPv4 address just takes up a few digits of a IPv6 address space.
Also, IPv6 uses shorthand. For example, if there is only zeros in a segment, it can just write a single zero to that segment.
It's correct that IPv6 isn't "Backwards compatible" with IPv4, in as much as the equipment must have a much longer hexadecimal address, but hexadecimal was chosen because it shortened the length of the address by a factor of 4.
IPv6, if it was designed like IPv4, would have addresses 128 digits long.
LINK>>> IPv4 wrapped to IPv6, and also converted
Essentially, an IPv4 address just takes up a few digits of a IPv6 address space.
Also, IPv6 uses shorthand. For example, if there is only zeros in a segment, it can just write a single zero to that segment.
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