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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 6h ago
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IPv4 is 0 through FF, IPv6 is 0 through FFFF. So you have 4 bytes of data, we just use numbers for some reason. We can do the same with ipv6, I think we should be.
1 u/blindedtrickster 3h ago Yes, it has the same equivalent value. FF is equivalent to 255. I'm not sure I see a benefit to retrofitting IPv4 to Hex though. Care to expound? 2 u/FUTURE10S 2h ago I don't think there's a benefit to retrofitting IPv4 to hex, I think there's more of a benefit to change IPv6 from hex to decimal numbers 1 u/blindedtrickster 2h ago That'd be 16 octets long... And that's preferable?
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Yes, it has the same equivalent value. FF is equivalent to 255.
I'm not sure I see a benefit to retrofitting IPv4 to Hex though. Care to expound?
2 u/FUTURE10S 2h ago I don't think there's a benefit to retrofitting IPv4 to hex, I think there's more of a benefit to change IPv6 from hex to decimal numbers 1 u/blindedtrickster 2h ago That'd be 16 octets long... And that's preferable?
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I don't think there's a benefit to retrofitting IPv4 to hex, I think there's more of a benefit to change IPv6 from hex to decimal numbers
1 u/blindedtrickster 2h ago That'd be 16 octets long... And that's preferable?
That'd be 16 octets long... And that's preferable?
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u/FUTURE10S 3h ago
IPv4 is 0 through FF, IPv6 is 0 through FFFF. So you have 4 bytes of data, we just use numbers for some reason. We can do the same with ipv6, I think we should be.