On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote: > >> problem is, its not alwas ggoig to be two bytes... > > It's always two bytes, but people may choose to omit them. That is a > social, not a (purely) technical, syntax, though.
It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do have byte sizes other than 8 bits, although few of them are likely to have IPv6 stacks, so, this may be an academic distinction at this point. Owen
