On Monday 20 December 2010 13:24:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2010 12:04:27 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > 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) > > Of course. Thanks for the correction. I should just have stuck with what > I was going to write, instead of thinking about it :-(
No worries, as I said, the correction was for the sake of the archives. You actually used the correct bit-count later on. :) It is a bit tricky when thinking about bits and then writing it consistently though, think IPv6 uses 128bits per address? -- Joost
