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How To Read IPv6 Addresses

A common complaint about IPv6 is that addresses are “hard to read”. If you’ve been in the networking world any length of time IPv4’s dotted quad is most likely seared into your brain and clumps of hexadecimal digits of varying lengths can can be hard to wrap your head around. However, those clumps can provide useful information.

Below I’ll go over some of the address types I’ve seen and show you what information they provide. Continue reading