IPv6

jryan · Post by **jryan** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:52 pm

Hey Everyone,

Though it's been around in development for a while, I thought I'd post a link to an article on IPv6, which seems to indicate a "change in the winds" of the Internet's addressing model. IPv6 is planned to help in increasing the availible IP addresses in the world, so much so that it would allow everyone on earth to own approximately 1,000 web-enabled devices. The problem that is fueling IPv6 is the impending shortage of IP addresses over in Asia, where more people have web-enabled phones and other devices and Europe as well. Read all about it at zdnet.

IPv6 Article

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 10:57 am

Quite interesting. This will probably make owning IPs cheaper as well, as there will be more.

It seems to already be in production, but it's not yet standard.

http://www.ipv6.org/v6-www.html

I suppose they need to make routers/nics etc compatible with this as well as the OS so it will be a big change!

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 1:48 pm

Ipv6 has been around for a while (I believe 3-5 years now), and is assumably being implemented gradually, (ie. to address shortfall issues). Windows XP shipped with support for IPv6, but it was disabled by default and MacOS X is also IPv6-compatible and a number of Linux distros seem to also be IPv6 compliant, if not now, then with patches that are underway, so you have your IPv6-compliant Operating Systems and manufacturers like Cisco started a plan of action in June 2000 to get IPv6-ready equipment on the market and in May of this year, Cisco released software with features for IPv6 (I would assume as an upgrade to existing software that resides on Cisco hardware).

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 12:19 am

From what I have heard, XP's firewall does nothing against IPv6 packets.. hint hint hax0rs.

Anyways, that would be cool as red said about owning more Ip's. i think this has to go into development since digital cameras', cellphones, pda's and other portable stuff all need to connect to the net with an "id". Ipv6 will definately be seen and used in a couple years, either that or a variant. Ipv4 only supports so much since my ISP uses 24.x.x.x. Thats an insane amount of ips not being used!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 1:20 am

How will iPv6 work exactly, will it be like this: x.x.x.x.x.x 6 octlets instead of 4? That will definatly add way more IPs.

I wonder if there's a way they can make octlets bigger than 255, that would be cool as well.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 1:56 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: How will iPv6 work exactly, will it be like this: x.x.x.x.x.x 6 octlets instead of 4? That will definatly add way more IPs.

I wonder if there's a way they can make octlets bigger than 255, that would be cool as well.

256x256x256x256x256x256

If I am correct with my calculations , there will be around 281,474,976,710,656 ip addresses availiable with ipv6. Not to mention class A,B,C,D,E,F addresses.

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