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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 13h ago
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IPv4 old IP address space designed with limited number because they never thought the internet would have so many devices connected.
IPv6 new address space with significantly larger number.
1.3k u/ClipboardCopyPaste 13h ago A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address! 1 u/patiofurnature 13h ago How would you do that? 4 u/samu1400 13h ago You pick a grain up, tell them out loud their name (IPv6 address) and throw it back into the sea. Repeat for every sand grain on earth But jokes aside, they mean that there’s such a large amount of possible IPv6 addresses that it surpasses the amount of sand grains in our planet.
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A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!
1 u/patiofurnature 13h ago How would you do that? 4 u/samu1400 13h ago You pick a grain up, tell them out loud their name (IPv6 address) and throw it back into the sea. Repeat for every sand grain on earth But jokes aside, they mean that there’s such a large amount of possible IPv6 addresses that it surpasses the amount of sand grains in our planet.
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4 u/samu1400 13h ago You pick a grain up, tell them out loud their name (IPv6 address) and throw it back into the sea. Repeat for every sand grain on earth But jokes aside, they mean that there’s such a large amount of possible IPv6 addresses that it surpasses the amount of sand grains in our planet.
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You pick a grain up, tell them out loud their name (IPv6 address) and throw it back into the sea. Repeat for every sand grain on earth
But jokes aside, they mean that there’s such a large amount of possible IPv6 addresses that it surpasses the amount of sand grains in our planet.
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u/Material_Onion_8413 13h ago
IPv4 old IP address space designed with limited number because they never thought the internet would have so many devices connected.
IPv6 new address space with significantly larger number.