Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] What I would have said...

[Bill Lovell]

At 05:17 PM 7/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 04:32:58PM -0700, Bill Lovell wrote:
>> For the benefit of dumb butt here, what's the IP size of the new IPv6
thing?
>> (Did I get that right?)  It's not a "dotted quad," I take it, so what is
>> it? And
>> its capacity is 2 to the what?
>
>128 bits  vs 32 bits for IPv4.  That's 
>
>340282366920938463463374607431768211456
>vs
>4294967296
>
>addresses, if I did the arithmetic correctly...
>
>Or 56713727820156410577229101238 addresses for every human on earth,
>give or take a few. 
>

You guys are good! I was actually asking the size of the address not only to 
determine how many there would be, but also, for computer manipulation
purposes, the actual word size, and the number 128 answers that. Thanks.
(Um, my calculator won't take that many digits.)

Bill Lovell
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