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Ipv6 is not 6 bytes? 8 segments of 2 bytes for a sum of 16 bytes?
Or am I stupid right now?
IPv6 is unfortunately not six bytes, no. For some weird, ass-backwards reason.
Why should it be? Also, MAC addresses are that size.