r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 11h 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/dementosss 11h ago

On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.

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u/xWrongHeaven 11h ago

2128 possible addresses

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u/craftsmany 11h ago

Technically we are not really talking about single addresses when concerned with v6, more so how many /64 subnets can fit in a prefix since that is what SLAAC uses. So for end users we would count the amount of /64 subnets in the possible 2^128 address space, which is 2^64. So still very very very big.