Hot Diggety! Jeremy Charles was rumored to have written: > > In IPv4: > > 216.165.132.0 > > ...the digits between a pair of dots are called an octet.
Yessir. > In IPv6: > > 2620:0072:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 > > ...what do we call the digits between a pair of colons? > > Bonus points for citing an authoritative-seeming source. :-) You sure ask the hard questions, don't you? ;-) Well, I can't find a clear authoritative cite from a quick look but the wording of RFC2460 suggests '2-octet', '2 octet'? http://ipv6.net/RFC/rfc-2460-internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-specification.html Open to alternate suggestions, of course. -Dan _______________________________________________ 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/
