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Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008
anzha writes "The constant question for 'when' for IPv6 keeps wandering across good ole /. It seems that the Pentagon has decided to put a foot down and put a deadline on their dark and dangerous portion of the net."
Won't we need IPv7 by then?
Didn't the government want us to be totally metric by now also?
You do realize that IPv6 offers something like an IP address for every square centremetre of ground on the planet, right?
I'm not Seth.
Maybe the white house could push this through.
BTW does Bush even know what IPv6?
I called up one of my customers ISP's for support and asked if they support IPv4 and they said no.
I'm glad that somebody has the backbone to go forward with IPv6!
Its not that they are so BIG that you can't ignore them, its that they are compensating for their lack of size with big guns
crowbar??
"I don't know as much about the Pentagon's communications. It'd be interesting to find out about them."
North Korea agrees with you.
You do realize that IPv6 offers something like an IP address for every square centremetre of ground on the planet, right?
If we're using those tiny-ass quantum computers, we're going to need all that and more.
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Crucially, in the header for the new protocol version there are 128 bits for senders and recipients. That equates to several quadrillion IP addresses for every individual alive.
:(
Damn, thats it...I was hoping for at least a quintillion
oh well, w/ that many available ip addresses, i'll hopefully be able to get a static IP thru my service provider...(if several quadrillion time the worlds population is enough to allow for that)
every soldier, truck, helicopter, etc. was connected in a very integrated and dynamic network
Just need to add the black-armored bodysuits, exotic eyepieces, conspicuous tubes, deathly white complexion, and Windows networking.
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I found this was generally made easier by pressing [ESC], selecting 'Options', 'Video', and turning 'Fog of War' to be off.
From the article:
I think I only have the old version of the Internet installed. Does the new version have better warez and porn support also? Where can I download it from?
(Yeah yeah, I know. I run IPv6 too:)
IPv6 by 2008 or else. What are they going to do? Cancel the internet?
IPv6 sounds great but I see that we will need more TLDs and a domain name will be absolutely necessary.
Frickin' Rainman will be the only one able to remember xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.
At least the giant corporations that are our new overlords will have to spend some serious $$$ to cover all the new 'name.new tld'. Perhaps after all this is done, they can work on flying cars. 'cause we are like 50+ years behind the times here, people.
But all that has to take a back seat to hard to remember IPv6.
Here's a plan, why don't we just take the internet away from all the AOLers, the Flash greeting card senders, the 'Great Story! Read this LOLRFLOLRLOL!!!!'ers, Zone Bejewled players and the cheaters at Counter Strike and we'll have enough IPs for all of the elitist bastards that are going to make my toaster talk to me.
Tell you what. I will trade all my IPs (192.168.x.x) for a friggin' flying car.
Let's make it happen. I'll even have a bumper sticker, "IPv6, but my doctor says I'll be fine!" with a smiley!
Gimmme my flying car.
And I've just hijacked my own /16!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
All I've heard is that Duke Nukem: Forever is supposed to have built in support for it...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Come one, this is stupid. Trust the army to screw up and fight the last battle. 128 bits was what we needed in the 1990's, now we need, at minimum, 1024 bits.
0 32 95103906144016539038225792870901895835390320107657 44457305542673419082369699669734880889275496329484 96303482538270489266497896614602800178013445636154 70744071510983402152604892326878198758722011817673 7621501526369471177135320848354245186405050904232
Proof:
numOfPeople = 7000000000
def uniqueIP(n):
return 2**n
def ipPerPerson(numOfIP, people):
return numOfIP / people
>>> ipPerPerson(uniqueIP(1024), numOfPeople)
25681330498033084396132931296986067623113956842
By my calculations, that is the minimum number needed per person. With all the nano-devices we will have by 2008, that number will go quickly, trust me.
Even if there are production delays and the nano-devices are not here by 2008, they will still be coming soon, so we may as well be prepared.
Also, for those who are going to complain, having 1024 bit IP addresses will not be much overhead.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I bet MIT get 100,000 square kilometre's worth then
"sure, you might get nanodevices smaller than that, but would they be independent enough and sensing/generating enough information to communicate via IP?"
That's such a quintessentially Slashdot quote, it makes me smile.
According to my calculations, 64 bits of memory would cost around 0.00000119 euro.
Now, 2^64 bits would be considerably more expensive.