Jonathan,
You know I love it when people know what they are talking about,
that's way I hang around all the folks in this group!!! This is
great info. and today I can say I learned something....
Many thank friend.
John
On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
John,
The IPv6 address is for the next generation internet. We are running
out of IP (v4) numbers (the famed "dotted quad" i.e.
###.###.###.###), so computers are starting to set their own IPv6
addresses to ease the transition. You don't have to think about it
yet, and indeed you can even turn it off in Network Settings, and it
won't affect you right now.
That said, we will all need to be paying attention to it in the next
few years as IPv4 addresses are predicted to run out sometime
(depending on who you talk to) in 2010, 2011, or 2012.
There are only about 3.2 billion possible IPv4 addresses. Sounds
like a big number? We're running out of them. In an increasingly
connected world, IPv6 should allow every refrigerator, toaster and
iPod of the future to have it's own internet address. IPv6 allows
for about 3.4 x 10^38 possible addresses. That's a 34 followed by
THIRTY-SEVEN zeros!
We're expected to run out of those by about 2015.
Just kidding!
j.
On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Profile <[email protected]> wrote:
David,
I want to jump in for clarification.
On the Airport advanced screen I get this: <pastedGraphic.png>
The string is much longer but I need to keep the size down.
On ethernet I get this: <pastedGraphic.png>
So, is the mac address the iPv6 number?
Thanks ever so much.
John
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