About documentation

[Ceri Davies]

On 12 Jan 2006, at 07:21, mauricio sanzana wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was reading
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers- 
> handbook/ipv6.html
> at the point 8.1.3.1 FAITH TCP relay translator .... says
>
> 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::163.221.202.12
>
> is that correct?  or maybe would be say 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff: 
> 163.221.202.12
>
> considering that ipv6 uses 128-bit address in 8 pieces of 16-bit
> so if have :: does means that there is 0000

Yes.  Where-ever you see "::" in an IPv6 address it means "as many  
zeroes as are required to make this 128-bit".  It's a convention  
defined on page 4 of RFC 3513.

Ceri
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