On Nov 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > 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. > Oops... Hit send too fast...
> It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do It is always two OCTETS. A byte is not always an octet... > 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 >
