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IPv6 Addressing Overview

IPv6 uses a 128-bit addressing model compared with the 32-bit addresses used for IPv4. In addition to being larger, IPv6 addresses differ from IPv4 addresses in several ways:

  • Notation
  • Prefixes
  • Address types

These differences give IPv6 addressing greater simplicity and scalability than IPv4 addressing gives.

Published: 2013-07-09