IPv6 tab
IPv6 is fully and natively supported in Observer.
This tab configures Observer to display actual IPv6 addresses when sensed, rather than their IPv4-compatible representation. This affects all statistical displays that show IP addresses in an IPv6 environment. You can also choose how to represent these addresses.
♦Compressed hexadecimal represents the address as native IPv6 (i.e. each of the eight 16-bit portions of the address are specified), but with the 0000 portions of the address replaced by double colons (::). For example: FE80::254E:F35D:7DB4:11
♦Not compressed hexadecimal represents the address as native IPv6 (i.e. each of the eight 16-bit portions of the address are specified), including the 0000 portions. For example:FE80:0000:0000:0000:254E:F35D:7DB4:0011
♦The IPv4 compatible formats represent the address as x:x:x:x:x:x:d.d.d.d, where the x’s are the 16-bit left-most portions of the IPv6 address, and the d’s are four 8-bit (IPv4-style) decimal values derived from the last two portions of the 16-bit IPv6 address. An example of the compressed form is FE80::254E:F35D:125.180.0.17. In uncompressed format, it would beFE80:0000:0000:0000:254E:F35D:125.180.0.17
♦Decimal. separated represents the address as 16 decimal octets, for example:254.128.0.0.0.0.0.0.37.78.243.93.125.180.0.17