nerf IPv6

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:16 pm

No seriously. These things are too freaken long to type.

1050:0000:0000:0000

0600

326b

No way I want to have to type all that to VNC into someone's computer to support them.

Bring back subnetting and VSLM!

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:19 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:No seriously. These things are too freaken long to type.

1050:0000:0000:00000600326b

No way I want to have to type all that to VNC into someone's computer to support them.

Bring back subnetting and VSLM!

You can also write that as:

1050::5

300c:326b

I'm the lead tester for IPv6 on the next version of our software

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:23 pm

Yeah there's short forms for when theres lot of 0's.

In all seriousness I'm looking forward to it will be rather interesting.'

the local host one is actually super small, its like ::1 or something, I forget.

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