On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 13:19 -0500, Jeremy Charles wrote: > Our network team’s google-fu is coming up empty. > In IPv4: > 216.165.132.0 > ...the digits between a pair of dots are called an octet.
Well, that is because it is an octet [it represents eight bits] > In IPv6: > 2620:0072:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 > ...what do we call the digits between a pair of colons? Hmmm. I've never heard them called anything. If that [pointless] subdivision has a term it isn't in common usage [even in IPv6 docs and networks]. Each grouping represents 16 bits - I'm not aware of a *common* term for that either [some people might, incorrectly, refer to it as a "word" (world length is actually variable; hence "incorrectly")]. But there is little reason to parse-to-bits an IPv6 address, unlike in the squeezed IPv4 days. > Bonus points for citing an authoritative-seeming source. :-) -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
