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What Can You Get from an IP Address and Why is it Important?

Galido

Along with Transmission Control Protocol, a person’s IP address is what lets their computer communicate with their Wi-Fi network. First of all, your Internet network is composed of four distinct parts, including something called a data link layer. Here’s how to tell apart the following IP addresses: IPv4 and IPv6.

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IPv6 Primer for Deployments

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the OpenStack Summit Sydney session titled “IPv6 Primer for Deployments”, led by Trent Lloyd from Canonical. IPv6 is a topic with which I know I need to get more familiar, so attending this session seemed like a reasonable approach. And a /64 prefix is considered a single local network.

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