From: elping (elpingu@acedsl.com)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 20:22:29 GMT-3
guys i would not mind writing and 8 octect ip address if it would allow me
not to do hex.
They wanted to do they same thing with IPV4 with going with hex..it never
happened and it was not adopted
I know that writing the ip address will be shorter with hex.but the
calculation of ip's ,subnetting and summary is cumbersome.
not that converting decimal to Hex is difficult but it is the getting used
to part and things that are clearly apparent with IPV4 will take a bit to
get used to with HEX .
I think the only motivator to going with HEX is the legnth of the
address..that is it !!!
come on the easiest numbering schemed are base 10 and base 2
and the conversion from either is easier than
base 2 to base 16 or
base 10 to base 16
and vise versa...
again old habits are hard to break .
El ping
CCIE
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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