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IP address - (6)

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Internet Protocol Address  (IP address) - 6 Summary on What we have studied in last Tutorial  ? :-        IP version 6 Address (IPV6) :-       IPv6 is the latest version of IP addressing. IPv6 implements 128-bit address whereas IPv4 implements 32-bit IP address. IPv6 implements first 64-bit for Network address while remaining 64-bit are reserved for host address IPv4 supports 4.3 billion addresses, which are not sufficient as per the growth of address requirements in recent years.        IPv6 provides with 3.4*10^28 ( 50 Octillion ) addresses which are much larger than the current requirement of IP address.       IPv6 address format is represented in Hexadecimal colon notation to make this address readable. The 128-bit address is divided into eight sections which is 2-byte in length and requires four Hexadecimal digits. Hence, the IPv6 address format consists of 32...