Method Protocols.IPv6.format_addr_short()

Method format_addr_short

string format_addr_short(array(int(16bit)) bin_addr)

Description

Formats an IPv6 address to the colon-separated hexadecimal form as defined in RFC 2373 section 2.2. bin_addr must be an 8-element array containing the 16-bit fields.

The returned address is on a canonical shortest form as follows: The longest sequence of zeroes is shortened using "::". If there are several of equal length then the leftmost is shortened. All hexadecimal letters are lower-case. There are no superfluous leading zeroes in the fields.

See also

parse_addr