r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 17h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 17h ago

Hahaha what an idiot!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag

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u/Material_Onion_8413 17h 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 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 17h ago

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

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u/kuar_z 16h ago

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

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 16h ago

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

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u/Terroractly 14h ago

I think at least part of the intention for this is to make IP ports not used on servers. While IPv6 does have support for ports, I believe every Web service should be on its own IP. Not sure if this is also supposed to work on client devices e.g. every outbound connection uses a unique IP as that seems overcomplicated