A2F0::2E:F0 is this address an IP or MAC ? And Why ?

Its an ip v6 address because it is the only one that use :: for contunios number of0s

Hi,

 

The address A2F0::2E:F0 is  IPv6.

The address:

 A2F0::2E:F0

is the same:

A2F0:0:0:0:0:0:2E:F0

and it is the same:

A2F0:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:002E:00F0

so A2F0::2E:F0 = A2F0:0:0:0:0:0:2E:F0 = A2F0:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:002E:00F0

 

IP v6 has the following properties:

-128 bit logical address

- Hexadecimal address (0-9, a-f)

- it consists of8 Hexadecimal blocks seperated by Colon (:)

 

in IPv6 you can remove only zereos from the IP in the following cases:

 

- If the block is zereos you can type it only one zero and you can type it also ::

example: one oblock in IP6 is0000 then you can type it one zero  also you can type it :: (double colon)

example2: the address1::1 is same1:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 and is same1:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1

 

-if the block starts with zero or zereos you can remove it

example: the address1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8 is the same0001:0002:0003:0004:0005:0006:0007:0008

 

 

HTH

Best Regards,

This IP V6 in shortly .... not A mac address

this is an IPv6 address. Shortened

its  IPv6 address 

because  mac is 48 bit ,6 octet every octet 8 bit ex:  Ab:1b:3c:22:23:2 and not use ::  with mac 

This Is IPV6 Address Written in Short Form..

This is the IP adress .The given address is written in the decimal form so thats why this is the example of IP address.

This is an IPv6 address. 

Explained below.

 

The text representation of IPv6 address prefixes is similar to the way IPv4 address prefixes are written in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation [CIDR]. An IPv6 address prefix is represented by the notation: ipv6-address/prefix-length where ipv6-address is an IPv6 address in any of the notations listed in Section 2.2. prefix-length is a decimal value specifying how many of the leftmost contiguous bits of the address comprise the prefix. For example, the following are legal representations of the 60-bit prefix 20010DB80000CD3 (hexadecimal): 2001:0DB8:0000:CD30:0000:0000:0000:0000/602001:0DB8::CD30:0:0:0:0/602001:0DB8:0:CD30::/60 The following are NOT legal representations of the above prefix: 2001:0DB8:0:CD3/60 may drop leading zeros, but not trailing zeros, within any 16-bit chunk of the address 2001:0DB8::CD30/60 address to left of "/" expands to 2001:0DB8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:CD302001:0DB8::CD3/60 address to left of "/" expands to 2001:0DB8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0CD3

 

IT IS MACH ADDESS MEAN PHysical address

 

MAC address is of bits, whereas IPv6 address is of bits.

Both use hexadecimal notation which means4 bits per digit. But the grouping of MAC address is as2 digits x6 groups, whereas the grouping of IPv6 address is4 digits x8 groups.

The group separator in MAC address is denoted by - or :, whereas : is used in IPv6 address.

:: denotes series of groups having only0s.

it's an IPv6 address 

 

 

An IPv6 address is made of 128 bits divided into eight 16-bits blocks. Each block is then converted into 4-digit Hexadecimal numbers separated by colon symbols.

 

For example, given below is a 128 bit IPv6 address represented in binary format and divided into eight 16-bits blocks:

00100000000000010000000000000000001100100011100011011111111000010000000001100011000000000000000000000000000000001111111011111011

 

Each block is then converted into Hexadecimal and separated by ‘:’ symbol:

2001:0000:3238:DFE1:0063:0000:0000:FEFB

 

Even after converting into Hexadecimal format, IPv6 address remains long. IPv6 provides some rules to shorten the address. The rules are as follows:

Rule.1: Discard leading Zero(es):

 

In Block 5, 0063, the leading two 0s can be omitted, such as (5th block):

2001:0000:3238:DFE1:63:0000:0000:FEFB

 

Rule.2: If two of more blocks contain consecutive zeroes, omit them all and replace with double colon sign ::, such as (6th and 7th block):

2001:0000:3238:DFE1:63::FEFB

Consecutive blocks of zeroes can be replaced only once by :: so if there are still blocks of zeroes in the address, they can be shrunk down to a single zero, such as (2nd block):

2001:0:3238:DFE1:63::FEFB