Subj : Re: Just how big is IPv6?
To   : Warpslide
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Dec 23 2024 15:22:49

-=> Warpslide wrote to All <=-

 Wa> A Reddit post from user Accendil on the r/theydidthemath community.

 Wa> Posted on December 31, 2014
 Wa> https://redd.it/2qxgxw

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 Wa> I've been a lover of IP addressing for many years, since I was in high
 Wa> school. I always found it funny how IPv4 had so few addresses because
 Wa> of the unexpected take off of the "internet".


Interesting post - thanks for sharing. IPv6 feels very old-school, the
intention was to put everything on the internet and to make everything
directly accessible. This was long before the botnet era - imagine if
every device on your LAN had an external IP?

I wonder if the proliferation of NAT as a way of working around IPV4
address exhaustion has helped make us a network of content consumers, not
participants in a greater experiment.

One thing I'd alway heard about IPV4 is that part of the problem was the
inequality of IP space allocation. Doesn't GE have an entire class A? I
know some earlier companies have entire class Bs, like BBN?




 
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