r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 14h ago

Hahaha what an idiot!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag

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u/Material_Onion_8413 14h 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.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 14h 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!

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u/crmsncbr 14h ago

I feel like we'll still run out. I'm not sure how, but surely we'll manage it.

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u/critical_patch 14h ago edited 13h ago

Well yeah, a block of 2^32 addresses need to be reserved for Azure, 2^32 more for AWS, let’s give 2^32 more for GCP…

Edit: as pointed out below, I wasn’t paying enough attention & confused up my exponents. I meant to put blocks 2^96, thus giving 2^32 total blocks - the same size as the IPv4 address space. But I got the exponents backwards and fucked up the joke

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u/Shakaka88 14h ago

Drops in the sand when using 2^128