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: