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4 bits
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8 bits
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16 bits
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32 bits
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128 bits
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Detailed explanation-1: -An IPv6 address is 128 bits in length and consists of eight, 16-bit fields, with each field bounded by a colon.
Detailed explanation-2: -IPv6 addresses are represented differently because they are much longer than IPv4 addresses. The IPv6 address size is 128-bits long, or 16 8-bit octets. This represents an astronomical increase in address size from 4, 294, 967, 296 seen in IPv4 to over 340 trillion, trillion, trillion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The size of an IPv6 address is 128 bits, compared to 32 bits in IPv4. The address space therefore has 2128=340, 282, 366, 920, 938, 463, 463, 374, 607, 431, 768, 211, 456 addresses (approximately 3.4×1038). Some blocks of this space and some specific addresses are reserved for special uses.