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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 05:04 PM EST |
It's 2^128, which of course is the same as 16^32.
If anyone has read "Beej's BSD sockets tutorial" (which is
great), the author has a very funny writing style when he
describes the increase in number of addresses provided with
IPv6. He says something like "not twice as many or even ten
or a hundred times as many, but FOUR MILLION BILLION
TRILLION times as many!!".
Another description I have heard is "6000 addresses for
every atom on the surface of the earth". So unless we
allocate them very badly, it is hard to imagine the internet
outgrowing IPv6.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: wharris on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 05:35 PM EST |
Except that MIT has that many IPv4 addresses.
Before people realized that the TCP/IP network was going to be much much bigger
than ARPANET, NSFNET, BITNET, and all of the other "also rans" and
long long before people had any dream that 4 billion addresses were not going to
be enough, a small group of pioneers divided up the address space, leaving
plenty of room (they thought) for future growth. MIT was one of those pioneers
and so they have what would now be considered a disproportionate number of IPv4
addresses.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 05:49 PM EST |
MIT has ~17M IP4 addresses. Your division by the total number
of IPv6 addresses is spurious if we consider the number of
IPv6 addresses MIT is "entitled" to with their present IP4 range.
It also does not address the fact that MIT gets as many addresses,
4 or 6, as the whole continent of Africa.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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