Re: [PLUG] Comcast "OPEN IMMEDIATELY" but don't

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:15:27PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:03:02PM -0800, Jim Trocki wrote:
> > that's six bytes :)
> 
> Yes, but twelve nybbles.  What, you can't read minds?  ;-)

You're both wrong. It's 24 bytes.

Six blocks of two characters of hexidecimal.

That's two bytes per hex digit (8 bits to a bit, 16 values per hex
digit) times two digits per block times six blocks. 2 x 2 x 6 = 24.

I understand Bill's error. I don't think I understand Jim's.

The first tip to both of you should have been that neither 6 nor
12 is a power of 2. Computer engineers *really* like powers of 2.

Also, note that these:

00:0f:3c:0b:00:02
0:f:3c:b:0:2

... mean the same thing in the world of MAC addrs.

(Sun ships machines labeled with the second format, various software
vendors insist that the former be used for their licensing keys.
These software vendors should clearly be kept far away from IPv6 for
fear it would drive them stark, raving mad.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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