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Tony Bussen wrote:
Better check your math on IPv6:
2^128 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
IPv6 uses 128 bits. Of course there are reserved ranges -- but no matter how you look at it, there are several orders of magnitude more addresses than the "274,941,996,890,625" you calculated.
;)
Tony
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:08, Alastair Grant wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3211035.stm
Roll on IPv6
Currently there are 4,228,250,625 IP addresses. With 6b people in the world. Naturally a lot of these people don't use the Internet, but then there are selfish people like me who have more than one. Computer, laptop, phone, pda, etc.
Then you need to minus out all the reserved ranges, which works out at about 16,646,655 IP addresses. Plus most organisations have "blocks" of IP's. I've got 255, don't use them all, but we have a subnet allocated to our department. Although I have a sneaky feeling other people fish out of that.
IPv6 will give us 274,941,996,890,625 I think.
Tristan wrote:
Must be some queer shortage? only 1/4 of the worlds IPs are in use
-Tristan
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