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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:34:56 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: error in ipv6.html of handbook(?)
Message-ID:  <20030122103456.GA4725@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030122045840.GA561@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
References:  <20030122045840.GA561@dhumketu.homeunix.net>

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:28:40AM +0530, Shantanu Mahajan wrote:
> (Plz. let me know if this is wrong list to ask this ques.)

Right list.

> Following is the part from handbook/ipv6.html
> 
> ------ BEGIN ----
> 19.14.2 Reading IPv6 Addresses
> 
> A third form is to write the last 32 Bit part in the well known (decimal) IPv4 style with dots ``.'' as separators.
> For example 2002::10.0.0.1 corresponds to the (hexadecimal) canonical representation
> 	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 2002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:000a:0001 which in turn is equivalent to writing
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  2002::a:1
> ----- END ----
> 
> As far as I can understand,
> 2002:10.0.0.1 should be 2002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0a00:0001
> i.e. 2002::a00:1 and not 2002::a:1
>            ^^^                 ^

Good catch!  I'll fix this this evening.

Thanks for letting us know,

Ceri
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