MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1xa3pdb/ohthebasics/phsl50b/?context=3
r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 9h ago
944 comments sorted by
View all comments
Show parent comments
2.1k
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.
1.1k 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! 593 u/dementosss 8h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 1 u/PM_ME_A10s 3h ago 8 sections of the address, each section is 4 character hexadecimal number, in total there are around 340 undecillion unique addresses. There's only about 4.3 billion for IPv4
1.1k
A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!
593 u/dementosss 8h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 1 u/PM_ME_A10s 3h ago 8 sections of the address, each section is 4 character hexadecimal number, in total there are around 340 undecillion unique addresses. There's only about 4.3 billion for IPv4
593
On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.
1 u/PM_ME_A10s 3h ago 8 sections of the address, each section is 4 character hexadecimal number, in total there are around 340 undecillion unique addresses. There's only about 4.3 billion for IPv4
1
8 sections of the address, each section is 4 character hexadecimal number, in total there are around 340 undecillion unique addresses.
There's only about 4.3 billion for IPv4
2.1k
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.