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Odd IP address when pinging my own computer

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Mar 15, 202612876 views

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When I ping a the computer I am using on my home network the response I get looks odd: Yet I ping another computer on my home network and I get a normal IP address. The results of ipconfig look like this: Is there anyway to get the ping results to display as IPv4? And do the IPv6 results look norma…

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Reply from fe80::8150:b519:d5da:8a00%9: time<1ms

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When you have IPv6 active, ping and a few other commands may default to IPv6. To force ping to use ipv4 add -4 as an argument: Incidentally, you an also force IPv6 with -6

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Odd IP address when pinging my own computer

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