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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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IPv6 uses a colon as a separator, instead of the period used in IPv4’s

dotted-decimal format. Each group is a hexadecimal number between 0000

and ffff called, unofficially, a field or hextet.

EXAM TIP You’ll see the hexadecimal letters in IPv6 written both

uppercase and lowercase. It doesn’t matter to the computer, but the people

behind IPv6 insist (per RFC 5952) that notation should be lowercase. That’s

the convention used here. You might see the letters uppercase on the

CompTIA Network+ exam. It’s all the same, so don’t get thrown off!

NOTE For those who don’t play with hex regularly, one hexadecimal

character (for example, F/f) represents 4 bits, so four hexadecimal characters

make a 16-bit group. For some reason, the IPv6 developers didn’t provide a

name for the “group of four hexadecimal characters,” so many techs and

writers have taken to calling them fields or “hextets” to distinguish them

from IPv4 “octets.”

A complete IPv6 address always has eight groups of four hexadecimal

characters. If this sounds like you’re going to type in really long IP addresses,

don’t worry, IPv6 offers a number of ways to shorten the address in written

form.

EXAM TIP IPv4 addresses use 32 bits, and IPv6 addresses use 128 bits.

Be sure you can identify their address length differences and address

conventions.

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