Overview of IPv6 Addressing
Lesson 3: IPv6 Address Types
The entire concept of global unicast addressing with IPv6 does have many similarities to IPv4. If viewing IPv4 addresses from a classless perspective, both IPv4 and IPv6 global unicast addresses have two parts: subnet plus host for IPv4 and prefix plus interface ID for IPv6. The format of the addresses commonly list a slash followed by the prefix length—a convention sometimes referred to as CIDR notation and other times as prefix notation. Subnetting works much the same, with a public prefix assigned by some numbering authority and the enterprise choosing subnet numbers, extending the length ...
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