Which of these characters can be used to abbreviate IPv6 addresses?
A) ..
B) ::
C) —
D) ##
E) Just fill in all the zeros with smiley faces
The answer: B) ::
IPv6 addresses can be very long, but you can abbreviate consecutive groups of zeros with a double colon. With this technique, you can modify this address
fe80:0000:0000:0000:5d18:6652:cffd:8f52
into this address
fe80::5d18:6652:cffd:8f52
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