IPV6 question.

mgmguy1

As IPV4 is phased out for IPV6 will becomes the defacto standard, I have a question on how you read an IVP6 adress.

Example. On an IPV4 setup 192.168.5.89. The 192.168 is the system address and 5.89 is the host adress. I have IPV4 down. However. I am haveing a hard time understanding on a IPV6 address.

Useing this Example from the Tech Notes. what part of this address is the system address and which part is the Host address???

FEDC:BA12:ABCD:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:1234

EdTheLad

Exactly like IPV4, you need the mask to work out the network address.Your example above is also incorrect,192.168.5.89 is a natural class c address with 24 bits for the network.Therefore the network address would be 192.168.5.0, that is assuming its using the natural /24 bit mask.You could have 192.168.5.89/16 (i.e. mask 255.255.0.0) then the network address will be 192.168.0.0, for ipv6 you follow the same rules FEDC:BA12:ABCD:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:1234/16 would mean
FEDC:: is the network address.The /16 represents 16 bits of subneting.