[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;22208271]You'd be running v6 on the LAN as well.[/QUOTE]
What would be the point? It's not like you're going to need more hosts on a LAN than ipv4 supports.
[QUOTE=CobraUnit;22199786]HOW about everyone works together and puts a big fat satellite in the sky that beams WiFi to every corner of the Earth.
<3[/QUOTE]
Free brain fries
Oh damn so much for me changing my IP all the time. :frown:
[QUOTE=Thomo;22200339]Yeah, but, [i]The Future[/i][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22200620]Asimov thought Earth's population would never go above 8 billion.
His novel, the Caves of Steel, features humans living in cities (Large, underground arcoloiges holding millions per square mile) with a total population of around 8 billion people, and I'm pretty sure it was the year 4,000.
You never know when it comes to [I]The Future[/I].[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Van-man;22200961]Not while this generation is alive.[/QUOTE]
You guys fail to grasp the number 2^128, it is more than the estimated amount of elementary particles in the universe. That is, break every single fucking thing in existence and made every single particle in to an IP, count them and 2^128 would still be a larger number.
[QUOTE=raccoon12;22200293]there's no way in fuck we could use that many ip addresses[/QUOTE]
Thats what they said about IPv4 in the 70's :smile:
[QUOTE=Swebonny;22211495]You guys fail to grasp the number 2^128, it is more than the estimated amount of elementary particles in the universe. That is, break every single fucking thing in existence and made every single particle in to an IP, count them and 2^128 would still be a larger number.[/QUOTE]
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456, [IMG]http://www.facepunch.com/ads/rating/tick.png[/IMG]
'Nuff said.
[QUOTE=EvilZx;22205722]I didn't think this would appear as news that quick. I was talking about this topic about a couple of months ago, thought it would take about a year to hit the news.[/QUOTE]
It's been in the news for [b]years[/b] now. People realised that IPv4 address space would run out in 2012 when they looked at just how steep the graph for exponential growth of the internet actually was.
[editline]12:10PM[/editline]
In the 90s.
[QUOTE=veribigbos1;22211548]Thats what they said about IPv4 in the 70's :smile:[/QUOTE]
You just don't understand. IPv4 isn't the same thing as IPv6.
IPv6 is gonna be handy if for nothing else but the fact all devices on a network behind a router are able to have their own unique addresses.
Wouldn't it be possible to add to more numbers to IP addresses? I know that everything that connects to the internet would probably have to be reprogrammed, but atleast we wont run out in a long time.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;22207358]You're either the most successful troll on FP in the last little while, or a bigger idiot than monkey_123
[editline]11:25PM[/editline]
It's basically 4 whole number integers separated by 3 dots. smallest possible number being 0, largest being 255.
255 being 0xFF. (so in hex, largest possible IP is FF.FF.FF.FF)
And each of the numbers can be unique.
Example 255.245.01.27.
So each number has 256 possible digits (including 0) which allows for 4 294 967 296 combinations of IPs.
Basically we have enough combinations for everyone to have their own unique IPv4 address, but in a short period of time, we will run out and so some people will be "IP-less"
Which is why we have to go to IPv6, which allows for way more possible IPs.
[editline]11:25PM[/editline]
Whenever you connect to the internet, if you have a static IP, your ISP gives you a temporary IP, if you have a static one, your IP is constant no matter what you do.
[editline]11:29PM[/editline]
That's how I understand it.[/QUOTE]
I think I understand now! Thanks :)
I think we'll change to IPv6 before anything systematical starts to happen.
I worked for Virgin Media up until last week. They're already implementing IPv6 into their broadband HCF (Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial) network, especially with their new top speed devices, like the 50Mb modems. Within the next year their 200Mb modems will be kick ass...
IPv6 looked really weird to me. I hate working with hexadecimal stuff.
[QUOTE=Kade;22212168]I worked for Virgin Media up until last week. They're already implementing IPv6 into their broadband network, especially with their new top speed devices, like the 50Mb modems. Within the next year their 200Mb modems will be kick ass...[/QUOTE]
You're not supposed to share the companys inside information on the internet.
[QUOTE=Hullu V3;22212185]You're not supposed to share the companys inside information on the internet.[/QUOTE]
you can read that stuff on their public forums.
[QUOTE=Kade;22212231]you can read that stuff on their public forums.[/QUOTE]
Well then. That changes things.
They've been trialing their 200Mb service in Coventry for about a year now.. really wish I lived in Coventry :(
Then again, 200Mb seems a bit like overkill.
Am I right in thinking that a lot of devices have dual IPv4 and IPv6?
[QUOTE=Kade;22212311]They've been trialing their 200Mb service in Coventry for about a year now.. really wish I lived in Coventry :(
Then again, 200Mb seems a bit like overkill.
Am I right in thinking that a lot of devices have dual IPv4 and IPv6?[/QUOTE]
Yes, you are right.
Finally this page will come in handy.
[url]www.wwwdotcom.com[/url]
Allow newcomer devices only to use IPV6?
[QUOTE=CobraUnit;22199786]HOW about everyone works together and puts a big fat satellite in the sky that beams WiFi to every corner of the Earth.
<3[/QUOTE]
Blueprints found!
[QUOTE=coco911231;22212370]Finally this page will come in handy.
[url]www.wwwdotcom.com[/url][/QUOTE]
IP Adress : 64.149.119.110
He's a liar, it should have been 255.255.255.255
I don't trust him anymore now
[QUOTE=CobraUnit;22199786]HOW about everyone works together and puts a big fat satellite in the sky that beams WiFi to every corner of the Earth.
<3[/QUOTE]
What so we can all use incredibly slow wifi? No thanks I'll stick to a hard line connection and run the risk of running out of ip addresses.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;22200117]Picture related, but 4 years old.
[IMG]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_of_the_internet.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
The alt text says:
For the IPv6 map just imagine the XP default desktop picture.
Ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::0
The mass of the solar system is approximately
M = 2 * 10^30 kg
With IPv6, the amount of addresses we have is
n = 2^128 ~= 3.4 * 10^38
If we tore this solar system to pieces and gave each piece its own unique address, the mass of an individual piece would be
m = M/n
~= 5.88 * 10^-8 kg
That's one address per 59 nanograms. The entire solar system could be consumed to produce nanorobots and they'd all have their own unique IPs.
[QUOTE=Skidd;22212824]Old news.
Won't we just move onto IPv6?[/QUOTE]
Because a lot of computer illiterate people would not know how to change the settings on their router or AP to enable it.
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