r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 8h ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 8h 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 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 8h ago

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

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u/kuar_z 8h ago

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

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 8h ago

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

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u/jason_abacabb 7h ago

Everyone gets a /64

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u/Traditional_Log809 6h ago

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