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If you mostly dislike the long addresses, you can cut out the second half. You can make your device be 2661:919a:023e:9100::1.

If you want a near-exact equivalent of 192.168.0.1, then you can use fec0::1 or fd00::1. That's even shorter than IPv4! You kind of shouldn't, but it'll work fine for a tiny network.

But as other people have explained, the compatibility will be just as bad. And IPv6 does have address ranges like that. Nobody talks about them because not much can be done with them.



And the reason it's recommended against is that you might later decide to join your local network to another one and then you'll have to renumber them. Which is exactly the same problem with IPv4 local addresses. Except unlike IPv4, there is a mechanism to prevent that ahead of time


Which is absolutely important once you're a business with a bunch of subnets, the kind of network that would be on 10. in IPv4.

If you're on 192.168 and you just want the convenient addresses, go for it.




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