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nerf IPv6

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:16 pm
by Red Squirrel
No seriously. These things are too freaken long to type.

1050:0000:0000:0000:0005:0600:300c: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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nerf IPv6

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:19 pm
by dprantl
Red Squirrel wrote:No seriously. These things are too freaken long to type.

1050:0000:0000:0000:0005:0600:300c: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!
You can also write that as:

1050::5:0600:300c:326b

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

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nerf IPv6

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:23 pm
by Red Squirrel
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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