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Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users

Posted by timothy on from the hop-aboard-the-six-train dept.

Spacecase writes "Comcast announced the first group of trial users have been activated on their IPv6 Native Dual Stack solution. Considering the recent news about IPv4 addresses becoming scarce, this looks to be one of the better solutions to get out of the IPv4 problems."

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  1. Famous Last Words by mccrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses.

    "18 quintillion unique IPv6 addresses should be enough for anybody." -me

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    Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.