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(Almost) All You Need To Know About IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the billions-and-billions dept.

Butterspoon tips us to an article in Ars Technica titled "Everything you need to know about IPv6." Perhaps not quite "everything"; the article doesn't try to explain the reasons behind IPv6's meager adoption since its introduction 12 years ago. But it should be regarded as essential reading for anyone overly comfortable with their IPv4 addresses. Quoting: "As of January 1, 2007, 2.4 billion of those [IPv4 addresses] were in (some kind of) use. 1.3 billion were still available and about 170 million new addresses are given out each year. So at this rate, 7.5 years from now, we'll be clean out of IP addresses; faster if the number of addresses used per year goes up. Are you ready for IPv6?"

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  1. IPv6 - never gonna happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dude, IPv6 is NEVER gonna happen. I been hearin that we was gonna run outta IPv4 addresses since 95. DIDN'T HAPPEN.