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On Monday 20 December 2010 11:44:11 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> (What follows has grown rather long. I hope it doesn't come over too |
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> much as a lecture.) |
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> It's fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it. The address of |
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> a device is a 64-bit number, expressed as four 16-bit numbers joined |
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> with dots. It's just easier to read when split into chunks, but it is |
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> really a 64-bit number. As in decimal arithmetic, the right-hand digit |
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> is the least significant. |
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For the sake of the archives, I do need to correct you here. |
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With the current IP-numbers (IPv4) it's a 32-bit number, expressed as four 8- |
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bit numbers (A byte is 8 bit) |
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