diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7
index 1e3b4c61c..bab7056e5 100644
--- a/man7/ipv6.7
+++ b/man7/ipv6.7
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 .\" and in case of nontrivial modification author and date
 .\" of the modification is added to the header.
 .\" $Id: ipv6.7,v 1.3 2000/12/20 18:10:31 ak Exp $
-.TH IPV6 7 2009-02-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH IPV6 7 2011-09-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ipv6, AF_INET6 \- Linux IPv6 protocol implementation
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ anycast to address the nearest member of a group of hosts
 (not implemented in Linux), IPv4-on-IPv6 to
 address a IPv4 host, and other reserved address types.
 .PP
-The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 16 2-digit hexadecimal
+The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 8 4-digit hexadecimal
 numbers, separated with a \(aq:\(aq.
 \&"::" stands for a string of 0 bits.
 Special addresses are ::1 for loopback and ::FFFF:<IPv4 address>