[CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

Kevin K kevink1 at fidnet.com
Sat Feb 26 21:06:45 UTC 2011


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 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.
> 
> 
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