[ILUG-BOM] Re: IPv6 (was Netmask)

[Kishor Bhagwat]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Currently, we have about 4 billion addresses. ipv6 increases this by a
> few powers of 2. ipv6 uses 6 fields for addresses (check me on this,
> please), instead of the current 4 used by ipv4.
> (xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx instead of xx.xx.xx.xx where x is a hexadecimal
> number)
> 

IPv6 uses a 128 bit address, which means it is 16 bytes long
More at www.terra.net/ipv6/

regards,
kishor



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