The IPv6 standard was developed to provide much more addresses than are possible with the “old” IPv4 standard.

An IPv6 address has 128 bits and is represented by 8 groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons (e.g.: 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329). It is possible to shorten this address representation by removing the leading zeros of each group and to replace a consecutive section of zeros with a double colon (this double colon can only be used once in an address). The short version of the previous example would be: 2001:db8::ff00:42:8329.

The structure of an IPv6 address contains a prefix, a subnet and an interface identifier part.

IPv6 addresses can be of the types Multicast, Unicast and Anycast. Multicast addresses always have the prefix ff00::/8.

In ConnectMaster the user can group IPv6 subnets in IPv6Pools and IPv6Pool groups (this is similar to the existing IPv4 management).