On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 17:58, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do > have byte sizes other than 8 bits
Vice versa. It's always two octects, but on some systems it may not be two bytes. >, although few of them are likely to have > IPv6 stacks, so, this may be an academic distinction at this point. Agreed. We can revisit this once we all own a few portable quantum computers, though :) Richard
