IPv6 Addressing Formats and Conventions

ImageAssigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface

The CCENT and CCNA R/S exams require some fundamental skills in working with IPv4 addresses. For example, you need to be able to interpret IPv4 addresses, like 172.21.73.14. You need to be able to work with prefix-style masks, like /25, and interpret what that means when used with a particular IPv4 address. And you need to be able to take an address and mask, like 172.21.73.14/25, and find the subnet ID.

This second major section of this chapter discusses these same ideas for IPv6 addresses. In particular, this section looks at

How to write and interpret unabbreviated ...

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