• 1 Day To Go: Goodbye IPv4!
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What is IPv4 anyways?
[QUOTE=Lufttygger306;27796130]What is IPv4 anyways?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4[/url] Enjoy.
Fck.bjm
Honestly, I never thought I would ever see a news article proclaiming (and being right) that the internet was running out of space. It's a little weird. I know we'll have IPv6 soon, but it is still honestly a strange prospect.
I'm so glad I don't have to play battlefield 2 anymore. Imagine reading those IPs out to your friends over skype cuz there's no paste function lol...
Is it just me or did the countdown from 1 day to 2 days
How to force IPv6 under a week: Switch Facebook to IPv6 and close the IPv4 version. However the downside is that suicides in Tech Support workers, and "those friends that are good with computers" will increase by 142%. [editline]2nd February 2011[/editline] Also, I'm not very good with networking, but: Why is it impossible to just use numbers beyond 255 in IPv4?
Why is there 2 days left now?
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;27795537]my ipv6 ip is 2001:0:4137:9e76:147b:340:a315:1b54[/QUOTE] Thank god, this may finally end game makers being lazy and avoiding putting a game browser in, because no-one will be able to remember or be bothered to type in their IPv6 address. :U .. It'll really fuck over older games though, won't it? 'Yo, dude connect to 1123:4:3454:56f5:233a:223:e234:12a4 and play some Minecraft with me!'
[QUOTE=BrQ;27795305]an IPv4 address is something like: 85.123.98.[B]765[/B] it's a 32bit address so there are only 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 addresses[/QUOTE] The max value is 255 for each binary octet.
[QUOTE=blazingfly;27799574]Thank god, this may finally end game makers being lazy and avoiding putting a game browser in, because no-one will be able to remember or be bothered to type in their IPv6 address. :U .. It'll really fuck over older games though, won't it? 'Yo, dude connect to 1123:4:3454:56f5:233a:223:e234:12a4 and play some Minecraft with me!'[/QUOTE] Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v Or, No-ip it
[QUOTE=Ezhik;27799171]How to force IPv6 under a week: Switch Facebook to IPv6 and close the IPv4 version. However the downside is that suicides in Tech Support workers, and "those friends that are good with computers" will increase by 142%. [editline]2nd February 2011[/editline] Also, I'm not very good with networking, but: Why is it impossible to just use numbers beyond 255 in IPv4?[/QUOTE] There's fixed space for the address in the normalized packed header. The whole packet is a stream of bits, and except for the data part itself, all parts including the address have strictly fixed positions. You would have to redefine the header anyway, and since this has to be done, lets do it big enough to last forever. Don't get confused by the fact there are letters now. IPv4 address could also be written in hex (with letters), and IPv6 address could also be written in dec (without letters), as what really only matters is the binary structure. However, the standard of how IPv6 is interpreted is hex, while it was dec for IPv4.
[QUOTE=Pepin;27799979]The max value is 255 for each binary octet.[/QUOTE] wow that was a pretty dumb mistake of me, thanks
I wish IPv6 was just an extra .255.
[QUOTE=Trumple;27794362]The ISPs are hoarding them, as previously stated. Which means, we have time to solve the problem. When the ISPs run out, I would imagine...by that time, we will have IPv6 I could be terribly wrong, but this is my understanding. Edited: Dumbs for...?[/QUOTE] Haven't you guys ever heard of DHCP? Jesus fucking christ. Most devices connected to the internet are connected via dynamic IP addresses which were given to that device by the ISP from a pool [I]full [/I]of IP addresses currently not being used. When that device disconnects from the internet the IP it was using is placed back in the pool for another device to use. If you guys want to keep IPv4 alive then quit being connected to the internet 24/7. Unless you have a static IP.
final /8s already started APNIC received the following IPv4 address blocks from IANA in February 2011 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near future: [LIST] [*]39/8 [*]106/8 [/LIST] that was the last batch to be issued before the final /8s [url]http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm[/url]
I hope I get a free new IPv6 capable router. My current one is really unstable, there's only 4 computers connected to it at most and it crashes and restarts constantly.
if your router and isp supports it, is it a good idea to switch to v6 or is the different so small that it's not worth wasting your time?
For once im actually GLAD to be in the biggest network in the UK [BT even though it sucks ass] Could the router support IPv6 via the update feature?Or will i have to get a new router?
[QUOTE=BigHeaded B;27794314]its the end of the world as we know it[/QUOTE] and i feel fine. but seriously this sucks...
Snipped from a related thread: [QUOTE=Jin;27646165]This is related to my profession so I guess I'll pitch in: To get this out of the way: They've been saying this since the mid 90's. As it relates to you: The typical internet user won't notice the effects of the IPv4 exhaustion right away. The internet will still continue to function, it's just that you cannot connect anymore devices that are solely IPv4. Now, does this mean you are forbidden to connect a new computer to your home network? No! That little "router" box that sits in your home is using either NAT or PAT. NAT stands for Network Address Translation, what that does is it takes your private IP address and translates it into a routable, public address. You can connect as many devices as you would like behind a router that is using NAT because from the outside it appears as one address. It is like a home telephone number, there are many people within the household that can be reached by calling that one number. PAT is probably what the router at your house uses. PAT stands for Protocol Address Translation. The router takes the private address of the device trying to reach the internet and tags on a port number (greater than 1024) to keep track of the session. So if my computer had an IP address of 192.168.1.100 and it wanted to reach the internet, the router would take the computer's IP address, tag on a port number to it to make 192.167.1.100, 7575. Then, it would take that and translate it to a public, routable address and send it out to the internet to gather whatever (Porn). As time progresses, however, you will not be able to see the new sites that pop up after the IPv4 depletion because they will be only using IPv6. IPv4 and IPv6 networks cannot communicate with each other. So unless you have an IPv6 address, you won't be able to communicate with said sites. I'm sure the major internet services providers will do some sort of NAT-like work around to allow IPv4 clients to snag a temporary IPv6 address so they can communicate. I hope all of that makes sense, I should be sleeping at this hour. Edit: By the way, you can point an accusing finger at smart phones. They hog a lot of addresses...and ISPs.[/QUOTE]
So, what will happen in Egypt... they dont have internet now, so would they all have "Jet-Lag" with the IPv6?
I doubt my ISP will switch over, they'll prob. just put down a NAT. Anyone else here have Bresnan?
Connecting to Servers by Ip in ip6 will SUCK MAJOR DICK! Minecraft is fucked.
[QUOTE=areolop;27803410]So, what will happen in Egypt... they dont have internet now, so would they all have "Jet-Lag" with the IPv6?[/QUOTE] The entire globe will experience "jet lag" with the switch. Swapping entire networks over to IPv6 costs a lot of money so businesses are reluctant. To put it simply: they won't be missing much. :)
So by hoarding IP's ISP's are essentially shutting out new players from entering the market for a couple of years? What does the law say about that?
[QUOTE=Lalelalala;27803918] What does the law say about that?[/QUOTE] Waht Law?
Runs CMD, types "ipconfig" checks for IPV6. Im good guys.
[QUOTE=areolop;27803940]Waht Law?[/QUOTE] I don't know which is why I asked.
[QUOTE=Capn'Underpants;27803620]Connecting to Servers by Ip in ip6 will SUCK MAJOR DICK! Minecraft is fucked.[/QUOTE] Notch really needs to implement a server browser, someday :buddy: Never :smith:
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