[CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

Sat Feb 26 20:58:21 UTC 2011
sheraznaz at yahoo.com <sheraznaz at yahoo.com>

>> Always learning wrote:

>> I always thought, mistakenly, IP6 was 6 segments, because it was IP6. IP4 had 4 segments. However IP6 is >actually IP version 6 and it has 8 segments.


I don't think I ever heard IP6, but always IPv6. Counting segments might not be as meaningful. 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).

Thanks
Sheraz
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