RE: IPV6 decimal or hex

From: Chris Hugo (chrishugo@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 14:48:26 GMT-3


Rich is right.It's Hex. Doyle II covers this pretty good.
chris hugo
 Rich Doty wrote:All of the RFCs already document the explicit use of HEX. Plus most
implementations are already in place, or in testing. Further, are you
sure you'd want to write a 128-bit number in decimal? There are some
cool tricks in 6 though with addressing notation, for example the IPv6
loopback address can be written as 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 or
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 or ::1. Here's a paper I wrote a little while back on
IPv6 vs IPv4.

http://webpub.alleg.edu/student/d/dotyr/x/richdoty_ipv6ipv4_with_alleghe
ny.pdf

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
elping
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:19 AM
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: IPV6 decimal or hex

Hi all:
I have been playing with IPv6 and found that dealing with hex number is
a pain in the neck. The standard wants to use HEX ....but old habits die
hard

what are your thoughts
do you think the networking industry will use HEX or Decimal .

I thing everyone likes the easy decimal scheme

El Ping

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