chazwazza

Term used to describe each set of 16 bits (orone word, two bytes, four nibbles) in an IPv6 address. Similar to an octet in IPv4, it’s a useful shorthand term ofr each of the eight segments in an IPv6 address.

For example:

The last chazwazza should be “dead” not “beef”. The full address is 4600:6703:0:f::dead.

Updated – Seriously

There doesn’t appear to be a real name for the IPv6 address segments and my suggestion is “chunk” as in, each section of an IPv6 address is a chunk, and there are eight chunks in an IPv6 address.

Kurt Bales contacted me and said: