Your IPv6 “Factoid of the Day!”
As you know, we “ran out” of “normal” (IPv4) addresses at the end of last month, so we need to start getting familiar with IPv6. So, in that spirit, here’s your “Factoid of the Day!”
With IPv4 there are a possible 4.3 billion addresses… and yes, the last ones were officially assigned last month. (Obviously, this means “public facing IPs,” not “NAT’ed ones.”)
With IPv6 there are 340 undecillion addresses, or 64 billion IPs for every square centimeter on earth!
Wow!
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
— ought to last us for a while.
Oopps,
340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
of course
Does seem like a bit of overkill… my network guy at work said that there are enough IPv6 addresses to give every molecule in our Solar System an address! Wow.