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Commercial IPv6 Service In Australia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the could-I-please-have-an-ip-for-*this*-atom? dept.

Carl Brewer writes: "At last someone's doing commercial IPv6 in Australia, [according to this Computerworld Article]. Maybe this'll kick some of the other ISP's into action." Fat pipes, IPv6 ... next they'll announce affordable satellite links to the whole country, lead-into-gold machines, etc.

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  1. A little off, but no biggie by Galvatron · · Score: 4
    The radius of the earth is actually closer to 2,100,000 (2,092,000, with 4 significant digits). Despite using a lower radius, however, you somehow managed to also get a lower number of IPs per square foot.

    (2,092,000^2*4*PI)=6.187*10^13 (again, significant digits are your friend)
    2^128=3.402*10^38
    (3.402*10^38)/(6.187*10^13) = (3.402*10^25)/6.187 = 5.499*10^24
    Your answer was approximately 6*10^22, so off by a factor of 100.

    Still, anyway you slice it, that's a fuckload of IPs. Which is good, because we certainly don't want to run into the "nobody could possibly need more than 512k of ram" problem. This way, utilizing all those IPs would be practically a physical impossibility, at least as long as we're contained within this solar system.

    Of course, this doesn't mean the "thousands of IPs per square foot" people are WRONG. After all, 5.499*10^24 is 5,499,000,000,000,000,000,000 thousand IP addresses per square foot. That's many many many thousands :)

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  2. Stop talking, start acting by The-Pheon · · Score: 5

    For those of you who would like to implement ipv6 on your systems, there are howto's available at http://www.ipv6.org/howtos.htmlAlso check out the USAGI Project

  3. IPv6, and the Tooth Fairy... by pb · · Score: 5

    Look, everybody, more numbers! It's a huge '128-bit address space'!

    Suddenly, the internet is faster, my computer is smarter, the world looks brighter, slashdot posts are more intelligent....

    Nah. Everything still sucks.
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