[CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

Sun Feb 27 05:56:39 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 02/26/11 9:46 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> Octets
>
> Thanks for pointing-out my misunderstanding.
>
> I'll remember 2 octets are really 2 characters (IBM's bytes) = 2 digits,
> 4 octal numbers or 4 hexadecimal numbers.
>


4 octal (base 8) digits only represents 12 bits.   byte oriented 
computers really don't fit into octal at all well