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Re: IPv6 address formats (rfc1884)

2000-11-09 15:30:02
See RFC 2373

At 06:06 PM 11/9/00 +0530, Ramanan wrote:
 I want  some clarification on ip(v6) address representation.

 How do we treat the following addresses? Are they valid or
 otherwise?

 1:2:3:4:5:6::7:8
 ::1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8

 0:0:0:0:0:0:1.2.3.4
 0::0:0:0:0:0:1.2.3.4

 0:0:0:0:0:ffff:1.2.3.4
 0::0:0:0:0:ffff:1.2.3.4

 The rfc does not state if these are allowed.

 This clarification is important as some user scripts might
 generate such ip addresses.

 An analogy I found is that most unix versions treat
       /home/./ftp
 same as
       /home/ftp

 please getback to me suggestions?


Ramanan




Chuck Kaekel
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