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Tuffdisc

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Is this a good thing since most IPv4 addresses are seriously running low

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

This is still a bit techy for me...I do know that IP is what every computer and internet enabled devices have to connect to the internet (again I don't know the correct terminology)

Apparently the Americas and Africa are lagging behind European and Asian countries
 
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Unlike the familiar IPv4 addresses which are 32 bits long, written in decimal, and separated by periods, IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long, written in hexadecimal, and separated by colons. An example would be:

3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf
Colons separate 16-bit fields. Leading zeros can be omitted in each field as can be seen above where the field :0003: is written :3:. In addition, a double colon :):) can be used once in an address to replace multiple fields of zeros. For example:

fe80:0:0:0:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf
can be written
fe80::200:f8ff:fe21:67cf

One more example
IP v4 :
decimal : 192.168.1.1
binary : 11000000101010000000000100000001
octal : 0300.0250.01.01
hexadecimal : 0xC0.0xA8.0x01.0x01
long : 3232235777
IP v6 :
6 to 4 address : 2002:C0A8:101:0:0:0:0:0
: 2002:C0A8:101::
IPv4-mapped address : 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:192.168.1.1
: ::FFFF:192.168.1.1
: ::FFFF:C0A8:0101
IPv4-compatibility address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:192.168.1.1
: ::192.168.1.1
: ::C0A8:0101


How is it complicated over IPv4?
 

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I still have problems with hex / binary. I need a calc to be efficient at it, I have friends that can say whatever word I pop out in hex or binary almost as fast as I can say the word, makes me so jealous lol.
 


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