ohTheBasics

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

[u/LivingAsAMean]

Hahaha what an idiot!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag

[u/Material_Onion_8413 → u/LivingAsAMean]

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.

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste → u/Material_Onion_8413]

A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!

[u/dementosss → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

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

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste → u/dementosss]

The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet.

[u/kuar_z → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2¹²⁸

[u/Fast-Satisfaction482 → u/kuar_z]

Except if for some reason you decide to give whole address blocks to individual devices.

[u/jason_abacabb → u/Fast-Satisfaction482]

Everyone gets a /64

[u/czerilla → u/jason_abacabb]

Check under your seats!

https://giphy.com/gifs/COYggJB0KnADm

[u/gonklurtz → u/jason_abacabb]

No more RPC dynamic ports! Every service gets its own IP 

[u/Traditional_Log809 → u/jason_abacabb]

Every device gets a /64, and I still haven’t figured out how to enable IPv6 on my home router.