Timeline for Can every grain of sand be addressed in IPv6?
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 10:51 | comment | added | user128364 | If each IPv4 address were one grain of sand, you would have enough addresses to fill approx one dump truck with Sand. If each IPv6 address were one grain of sand, you would have enough sand to equal the approx size of the sun. Today most devices & networks still communicate using IPv4 but migration to IPv6 is proceeding gradually over time. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 13:09 | comment | added | xDaizu | I'd say probably. My network professor said that IPv6 allowed for very fine-grained networks... | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 22:33 | history | edited | Sklivvz |
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| Jul 31, 2015 at 17:47 | comment | added | kasperd | @KjellArneRekaa Actually IPv7 addresses are only 64 bits. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:22 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 28, 2014 at 9:08 | comment | added | galdikas | @matt_black, yet ;) | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 23:55 | comment | added | user10893 | 340 billions ... It is not absolute sure that all of our (so far mostly unknown) Milky Way exoplanets are covered with this ... But heck - we might go for 256 bits address space in IPv7 ... | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 21:29 | comment | added | matt_black | Well, no. Grains of sand don't have any suitable networking hardware. :-) | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 15:57 | history | edited | Mad Scientist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2011 at 9:14 | comment | added | jokoon | and if it's not addressable, just use NAT for ipv6 | |
| Jun 12, 2011 at 6:25 | vote | accept | Sal Rahman | ||
| Jun 12, 2011 at 3:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/79749681571303425 | ||
| Jun 12, 2011 at 0:06 | answer | added | Thomas O | timeline score: 150 | |
| Jun 11, 2011 at 23:47 | history | asked | Sal Rahman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |