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IPv6 address shortening exercise

IPv6 address shortening exercise

From the course: Cisco Networking Foundations: IP Addressing

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IPv6 address shortening exercise

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- [Instructor] In our previous video, we took a look at a couple of rules that would allow us to, in some cases, abbreviate an IP version six address. Now in this video, I want to give you some practice doing that. I want you to take a look at this IP version six address on screen, pause the video and come up with the best abbreviation, if there is an abbreviation, and when you're done, resume the video and we'll go through a solution together. (bright music) Alright, did you abbreviate this address? Let's go through it together. In that first quartet, we have 2000, really nothing to abbreviate there because that quartet does not begin with a zero. But I noticed that the next three quartets, they're all zeros. That would be an opportunity to use the double colon. However, before I just immediately jump to that conclusion, let's look further down in the address and see if there's a better opportunity to use the double…

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