5 Oct
2009
5 Oct
'09
12:19 p.m.
On 05/10/2009 17:08, Brian Johnson wrote:
So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses?
I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a single device!
No, for a single LAN.
Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
more-or-less. Can I suggest you read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6 Think of ipv6 not as 128 bits of address space, but more as a addressing system with a globally unique host part and 2^64 possible subnets. In this respect it's substantially different to ipv4. Nick