Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
com
Page 1 of 4
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1893&tag=nl.e036
10/28/2010
Page 2 of 4
Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snails pace, theres no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out.
[Editor's note: This article has been revised to correct a few errors noted by TechRepublic members. Thanks to everyone who contributed their input.] Over the last several years, IPv6 has been inching toward becoming a mainstream technology. Yet many IT pros still dont know where to begin when it comes to IPv6 adoption because IPv6 is so different from IPv4. In this article, Ill share 10 pointers that will help you understand how IPv6 addressing works.
If this were a real address, any leading zero within a section could be suppressed. The result would look like this:
[FE80:CD00:0:CDE:1257:0:211E:729C]
As you can see, suppressing leading zeros goes a long way toward shortening the address.
In this address, there are four sequential sections separated by zeros. Rather than simply suppressing the leading zeros, you can get rid of all of the sequential zeros and replace them with two colons. The two colons tell the operating system that everything in between them is a zero. The address shown above then becomes:
[FE80:CD00::211E:729C]
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1893&tag=nl.e036
10/28/2010
Page 3 of 4
You must remember two things about inline zero suppression. First, you can suppress a section only if it contains nothing but zeros. For example, you will notice that the second part of the address shown above still contains some trailing zeros. Those zeros were retained because there are non-zero characters in the section. Second, you can use the double colon notation only once in any given address.
Once all of the zeros have been suppressed, however, the IPv6 loopback address doesnt even look like a valid address. The loopback address is usually expressed as [::1].
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1893&tag=nl.e036
10/28/2010
Page 4 of 4
Its kind of ironic, but as hard as Microsoft has been pushing IPv6 adoption, Windows does not fully support IPv6 in all the ways you might expect. For example, in Windows, it is possible to include an IP address within a Universal Naming Convention (\\127.0.0.1\C$, for example). However, you cant do this with IPv6 addresses because when Windows sees a colon, it assumes youre referencing a drive letter. To work around this issue, Microsoft has established a special domain for IPv6 address translation. If you want to include an IPv6 address within a Universal Naming Convention, you must replace the colons with dashes and append .ipv6.literal.net to the end of the address for example, [FE80-AB00--200D-617B].ipv6.literal.net. Note: This article is also available as a PDF download.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1893&tag=nl.e036
10/28/2010