IPv6 Address Examples 

As explained earlier, IPv6 subnetting can be compared to classless

addressing. The following list of host IDs shows how IPv6 addresses

could be written. Note that the 255 address limit that existed with IPv4

is no longer a limitation in IPv6, so there could be many more possibili 

ties in addition to what is listed. The underlined portion of each address

identifies the network prefix which is calculated through the prefix

length notation. In other words, since /48 is the prefix length notation,

then the first four integers will be the prefix length and the rest will be

the interface ID. Because each integer equals 16, the calculation is 48

divided by 16 equals 4.

Subnet #1: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0078/48

Host #1: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0080/48

Host #2: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0081/48

Host #3: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0082/48

Host #4: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0083/48

Host #5: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0084/48

Host #6: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0085/48

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Host #62: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0086/48

Host #63: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0087/48

Host #64: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0088/48

Host #65: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980 :7654:FCD4:FF26:0089/48

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Host #123: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0090/48

Host #124: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0091/48

Host #125: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980:7654:FCD4:FF26:0092/48

Host #126: ABF2:45AF:2574:9980 :7654:FCD4:FF26:0093/48

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