hextet
A group of 16 bits, usually written as four lowercase hexadecimal digits (e.g., 0fe8). The 128-bit addresses used in IPv6 are written as eight hextets separated by colons (e.g., 2006:0fe8:85a3:0000:0002:8a2e:0a77:c082).
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