When you fire up an EC2 virtual machine, you get an IPv6 address like this. fe80::2000:aff:fea7:f7c There’s a lot of meaning packed into that strange-looking identifier. A few companies have ...

you must replace the colons with dashes and append .ipv6.literal.net to the end of the address — for example, FE80-AB00–200D-617B.ipv6.literal.net.

The MAC address becomes 0200:90FF:FE0F:C27E. This is more easily shown as follows: Link-local IPv6 addresses begin with 1111 1110 1000 (FE80 in hexadecimal, making the first two bytes FE80 if all of ...

Link-local IPv6 addresses have a prefix of fe80::/10 and a 64-bit suffix which can be computed and managed by the host itself without requiring additional networking components. IPv6 hosts can ...