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     Re: New one   
     By: Michiel van der Vlist to Deon George on Thu Oct 08 2020 06:13 pm   
      
   Howdy,   
      
    MV> An IPv6 address is a 128 bit number. Usually (but not always) represented   
   to the human by up to eight colon seperated groups of up to four hexadicimal   
   digits.   
      
   Yup, any "x" bit number (where X is divisable by 8) is representable as a hex   
   number.   
      
    MV> If mailers and tossers think at all, which is questionable, they think in   
   nodenumbers, which are almost always represented to the human in decimal.   
      
   Yeah, but they lay out packets to be sent using filesnames that are named with   
   a hex value, to represent the destination for the file.   
      
    MV> f1d0 is "hex speak", directed at the human, not the machine.   
      
   Its cool isnt it that we can make a representable word from hex.   
      
    MV> Anyway, you are breaking the convention and that can be confusing. In   
   your case it is clear because there is an "alfa digit" in one of the hex   
   number groups, but there are plenty of hex numbers that only have the digits   
   0-9. How is the reader going   
    MV> to know if it is hex or decimal?   
      
   Why do they need to know? If I went with SLAAC, it would be even more   
   confusing right?   
      
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