i agree unless we go out and replace all routers there is no way they would be able to work with a caotic adressing skem. most routers have between 4 and 8 meg of ram. they just arnt that good yet.
Just for presepective IPv4 doesn't even allow for one IP address per person. IPv6 supports 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today. Over 600,000,000,000,000,000 for every square mm on the surface of the earth. Or 500,000,000,000,000 for every cell in every person on the planet. Over 300,000,000 per mm cubed of matter in the earth. Or just over 3 IPs per meter cubed in the entire solar system.
I HATE it when people spread FUD like this. In response to bobothn's completely false statement about IPv5, there was really no such thing. The question gets asked frequently because of the jump from IPv4 to IPv6, so there is information on it out on the web.IPv5 was a name 'assigned' to an experimental protocol that never even got far enough to have an official RFC. When the original protocol was re-examined so to speak, it was completely redesigned and dubbed ST and ST2, which the public never really saw or heard about.Wikipedia has a quick writeup on it: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv5">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv5</a>
bobothnJul 15, 2006
i agree unless we go out and replace all routers there is no way they would be able to work with a caotic adressing skem. most routers have between 4 and 8 meg of ram. they just arnt that good yet.
theone3Jul 15, 2006
Alernatively, your IP address could look like thiseat::beef::feeb:1e::0b0ebeef:beef:beef:beef:beef:beef:beef:beef1337::::::::<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_leet_speak">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_leet_speak</a>
Closed AccountJul 15, 2006
8 - The average age at which a child gets a mobile phone in BritainOh, f**k them
goggleboxJul 15, 2006
Just for presepective IPv4 doesn't even allow for one IP address per person. IPv6 supports 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today. Over 600,000,000,000,000,000 for every square mm on the surface of the earth. Or 500,000,000,000,000 for every cell in every person on the planet. Over 300,000,000 per mm cubed of matter in the earth. Or just over 3 IPs per meter cubed in the entire solar system.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2006
I HATE it when people spread FUD like this. In response to bobothn's completely false statement about IPv5, there was really no such thing. The question gets asked frequently because of the jump from IPv4 to IPv6, so there is information on it out on the web.IPv5 was a name 'assigned' to an experimental protocol that never even got far enough to have an official RFC. When the original protocol was re-examined so to speak, it was completely redesigned and dubbed ST and ST2, which the public never really saw or heard about.Wikipedia has a quick writeup on it: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv5">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv5</a>
stuntpopeJul 15, 2006
This better not be news to anybody here.Nuff said.
keng6Jul 15, 2006
Your calculator is off. Kriox got it right above (barring any protocol-specific reserved addresses like the IPV4 broadcast, *.255.)