2 hex digits is 1 octet (or byte).
On Feb 26, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:58 +0000, sheraznaz@yahoo.com wrote:
IPv6 has twice (8) segments compared to IPv4 however each segment is 2 octets making IPv6 address space 4 times (128 bits) compared to IPv4 (32 bits).
Oct... means 8.
Each segment of an IP6 segment can contain 4 hexadecimal digits. Hexadecimal means 0 to F.
Are you sure 'octets' is correct?
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