On Monday 20 December 2010 11:44:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: > (What follows has grown rather long. I hope it doesn't come over too > much as a lecture.) > > It's fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it. The address of > a device is a 64-bit number, expressed as four 16-bit numbers joined > with dots. It's just easier to read when split into chunks, but it is > really a 64-bit number. As in decimal arithmetic, the right-hand digit > is the least significant.
For the sake of the archives, I do need to correct you here. With the current IP-numbers (IPv4) it's a 32-bit number, expressed as four 8- bit numbers (A byte is 8 bit) -- Joost
