Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is an Internet Protocol used for carrying data in packets from a source to a destination over various networks. IPv6 is the enhanced version of IPv4 and can support very large numbers of nodes as compared to IPv4. It has 2128 combination of nodes.
IPv6 is under development with hexadecimal format and contains 8 octets to provide large scalability. IPv6 also deals with address broadcasting as IPv4 is using, without containing broadcast addresses in any class.
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