One of the task installing a new FreeBSD box was dealing with IP addresses. Usually, google a web based calculater would do the trick. But today’s task is a bit different.
IPv6. A whole row of hexadecimal spinning in front of my eyes, just to figure out what is the range of IP that is usable. [...]
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Network IP address calculator – for subnet and range of host
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