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Title: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: icecream-guy on June 04, 2015, 09:56:48 AM

in IPv4 we call them octets, in IPv6, what do we call them?

2002:CODE:BAD:COW::DEED

The stuff between the colons
e.g. BAD or CODE

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: deanwebb on June 04, 2015, 10:46:22 AM

Quadtets?

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: NetworkGroover on June 04, 2015, 12:12:23 PM

DEAD:BEEF

FACE:B00C

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: SimonV on June 04, 2015, 02:05:32 PM

hextets 8)

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: wintermute000 on June 04, 2015, 08:06:21 PM

i thought it was still octets?

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: NetworkGroover on June 04, 2015, 11:55:49 PM

Quote from: SimonV on June 04, 2015, 02:05:32 PM
hextets 8)

Looks like this will win out.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11183651/what-do-you-call-ipv6-address-parts (https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11183651/what-do-you-call-ipv6-address-parts)

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: Reggle on June 05, 2015, 06:57:19 AM

Sedets. But hextets sounds better now.

Title: Re: What name do you give to a section of and IPv6 address??
Post by: icecream-guy on June 05, 2015, 07:57:25 AM

here's the original article I found when searching
http://etherealmind.com/naming-ipv6-address-part-vote/

Networking-Forums.com

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