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IPv6 address shortening exercise

IPv6 address shortening exercise

From the course: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) v1.1 (200-301) Cert Prep

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IPv6 address shortening exercise

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(vibrant music) - [Instructor] I would like you to get some practice now with shortening an IP version six address. Remembering that the two abbreviation rules are within a quartet we can omit leading zeros and if we have consecutive quartets of all zeroes, we can represent those consecutive quartets of all zeroes with a double colon. But if that occurs more than one time in an address, like it does in this example, you can only use that double colon abbreviation one time. So my challenge to you is to come up with the best abbreviation of this IP version six address. Go ahead and pause the video and when you're done you can resume and we'll go through the solution together. Alright, let's go through the solution together. In that first quartet, we've got two, zero, zero, zero. We have no leading zero, so we've got to bring that down just as it is. And we now have three quartets containing all zeros. We could use the double colon here, but if we look further down in the address, there…

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