From c080d5799ab4b36203796a8d782c68f7d8ee9a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 02:01:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6.7: Fix description of address notation: "8 4-digit hexadecimal numbers" Reported-by: Simon Cross Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/ipv6.7 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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: