From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 15 7:30:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F6C37BCA8 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA20689; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:29:49 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 20550; Thu Jun 15 16:28:52 2000 Message-ID: <3d3d4c25e90ff511bc4fe02a7c2e836f@cequrux.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:30:47 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Stupid question?, regarding IPv6 References: <20000615161942.G31378@sr.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > This really has nothing special to do with STABLE, but since I know that > the experts are here, here we go. Much is written about IPv6, but I've > never seen an example of how a IPv6 address is constructed. ie. How does > it look? IIRC, it is written a lot like a Ethernet MAC address, but with 16-bit elements; e.g. : ffe6:1234:abc:ffff:0000:2000:ff86:fe77 (That's just numbers sucked out of my head; it isn't meant to be a real address by any means). -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message