Re:The lack of a good command line way to sort IPv6 addresses
by oldnetguy on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:39AM
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Agreed. By using decimal, you can explain to the average person what an address is and be able to work with them. IPv6 totally eliminates that.
There is an argument that end users and consumers shouldn't need to concern themselves with this but in the field that this is not true.
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Re:The lack of a good command line way to sort IPv6 addresses
by fragmede on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @12:36PM
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How often do consumers (ie not network professionals) need to do CIDR or anything more advanced than read off an address? Is reading 64512 colon 65152 colon colon 7237 that much easier over a bad phone connection than fc00:fe80::1c45? By the time you're that deep with someone non-technical having them read an address over the phone, you've already lost