Just for fun, the IPv4 address 192.168.213.84 written in IPv6-style hexadecimal notation is c0a8:d554. The address might look foreign and intimidating to you if you haven’t worked with hex ...

In my past two columns I’ve talked about why implementing IPv6 on your network is a good idea ... IPv6 addresses, on the other hand, use hexadecimal notation. Version 6’s implementers chose ...