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Re: [SLE] Odd (to me) addressing question
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:49:59 -0500
  • Message-id: <20040921004959.GH25923@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx> [09-20-04 19:20]:
>
> You are so fond on manuals, aren't you? ;)

Yes, with my education, manuals are *necessary*.

> I did a 'apropos ipv6', lo and behold: there is a manual page about ipv6!

I'm embarrassed.

> From 'man ipv6':
>
> Special addresses are ::1 for loopback and ::FFFF:<IPv4 address> for
> IPv4-mapped-on-IPv6.

At least my suspicions were in the ballpark (US slang for close).

> Cheers,

And to you. I'll get the next round.
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