[VoiceOps] IPV6

[Alex Balashov]

Sure, a 128-bit address is going to be unwieldy in any notation.

Why is hex better, I am genuinely curious?  Does being able to slice  
at the half-byte boundary allow for some highly advantageous  
granularity I am failing to appreciate as an IPv6 n00b?

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On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Jeff McAdams <jeffm at iglou.com> wrote:

> Why don't you take an IPv6 address and convert it to dotted octets,  
> then come back and report on how unweildy that is to deal with.
>
> Yes, hex is indeed more expressive, and once you start using IPv6  
> addressing some, it becomes very natural to work with.
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:27 AM
> To: David Hiers <hiersd at gmail.com>
> Cc: VoiceOps <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] IPV6
>
> David Hiers wrote:
>
>> Never looked into it yet.  I"m still working on Gerald Ford's Great
>> Metric Conversion :)
>>
>> Our current business model doesn't contain a lot of drivers that  
>> might
>> motivate an investigation.
>
> The day IPv6 is adopted seriously, I am leaving networking/telecom and
> going to start a bakery.  I can barely microwave Lean Cuisine, but
> perhaps I can secure some assistance from significant other.
>
> There is no way I am going to be managing infrastructure by way of hex
> nibbles.
>
> Remind me, why is it that nobody thought of using dotted decimal
> notation for IPv6 addresses, but just adding more octets?  Are
> half-bite nibbles in a base humans aren't normally taught to count in
> more "expressive" somehow?
>
> -- Alex
>
> -- 
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