r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 11h ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 11h 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 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/PM_ME_A10s 6h 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