Address Abbreviating and Expanding Problems

Chapter 25 discusses some reasons why you may need to be able to mentally convert from the full 32-digit IPv6 address to the abbreviated form, or vice versa. The practice problems in this section simply provide more opportunities to practice.

Table K-1 lists some practice problems, with the full 32-digit IPv6 address on the left and the best abbreviation on the right. The table gives you either the expanded or abbreviated address, and you need to supply the opposite value. The answers sit at the end of the appendix, in the section “Answers to Address Abbreviating and Expansion Problems.”

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