Are you ready for IPv6?

For a long while now it has been known that IPv4 will run out of available publicly assignable IP addresses. IPv4 address are 32 bits wide and quite simply can’t cope with the demand of the modern world – despite NAT’ing. IPv6 looks to resolve this by have not only more digits, but also using hexadecimal. For example, an IPv4 address looks like this 192 . 168 . 0 . 1...

December 3, 2014 · 2 min · matt40k