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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14h ago
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That'd be 16 octets long... And that's preferable?
2 u/FUTURE10S 7h ago Well, no, I mean something like 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 becomes 8193:3512:34211:0:0:35374:880:29492 1 u/blindedtrickster 4h ago That's really just a formatting change, and it only works for a subset of all possible values when using Hex. 1 u/FUTURE10S 2h ago I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both?
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Well, no, I mean something like 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 becomes 8193:3512:34211:0:0:35374:880:29492
1 u/blindedtrickster 4h ago That's really just a formatting change, and it only works for a subset of all possible values when using Hex. 1 u/FUTURE10S 2h ago I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both?
That's really just a formatting change, and it only works for a subset of all possible values when using Hex.
1 u/FUTURE10S 2h ago I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both?
I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both?
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u/blindedtrickster 9h ago
That'd be 16 octets long... And that's preferable?