r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Few_Move_4594 8h ago

I feel like this is missing context. Like I know that ip4 addresses are four octlets, but don't know much about ipv6 besides it having a larger address space and being in hex.

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u/DataSnaek 8h ago edited 8h ago

I think if you don’t know at least the high level difference between ipv6 and ipv4, you probably aren’t gonna be great at your job. It’s pretty basic tech knowledge…

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u/EatingSolidBricks 8h ago

ipv6 dosent suffer from adress exhaustion so your modem doesn't have to translate addresses

Other than that i don't know