On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:58 +0000, sheraznaz at 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? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.