Timothy Bolz wrote: > I've read that everyone on the planet could have their own IP address > with IP6. IPv6 uses a 128 bit address. 128 bits allows 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 different addresses. There are only slightly more than 6000000000 people on earth today, so each person could have more than 1e28 IP addresses. This morning on another mailing list, I speculated that as soon as we have microscopic computers, 1e28 IP addresses apiece won't seem like that many. > Maybe someday your IP address will be your phone number all rolled > up into one. An IP address is needed for each network interface of each computer, not for each person. For example, my laptop has both a wireless Ethernet card and a (wired) Ethernet interface, so it has two IP addresses. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
