No more ip's for web...

[tittat]

For starters, the Internet runs on version 4 of the Internet Protocol.It was standardized 1981, and serves as the dominant network layer protocol for the Internet. IPv4 has since proved to be inadequate, primarily for its lack of address space.

The good news is IPv4 has a successor, which is IPv6. Version 6 of the Internet Protocol holds more than 16 billion-billion addresses, unlike IPv4 that holds just over 4 billion.

But Critics argue that IPv6 is incapable of taking over.

If we continue with IPv4 that holds just over 4 billion, will we run out of quota in the near coming future?.
What do you think?

 

[LHVWB]

The Internet will definitely need to get IPv6 because 4 billion addresses just isn't enough, think of all the people in the world that don't yet have the Internet, that could easily take up a lot, and remember that most large companies and organizations can use up to hundreds of separate IP addresses. Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6.

"With IPv4, complex CIDR techniques were developed to make the best possible use of a restricted address space." Mucking around seems to be the only way of taking advantage of IPv4, using IPv6 will save that mucking around (but then make people lazy at the same time). :dunno:

 

[tittat]

Yaa i agree with verbsite Some companies are beginning to administer IPv6 and are using both IPv4 and IPv6 together. In time, IPv4 will run out of addresses and need to phase out. At that point, the Web will operate solely on IPv6.

 

[IonCannon218]

Yes, I see the linux kernel having IPv6, but on the other hand, I don't see Windows starting to use IPv6 yet.

Well, newer server have both IPv4 and IPv6, but what about all of those older routers, switches, and other stuff? They have to be either upgraded or replaces.

 

[LHVWB]

Well, newer server have both IPv4 and IPv6, but what about all of those older routers, switches, and other stuff? They have to be either upgraded or replaces.

Yeah, that's always the case with older technology, some people will want to keep their old technology and they'll have to folk out money when IPv4 actually becomes obsolete.

 

[alexandgruntz]

Yes, I see the linux kernel having IPv6, but on the other hand, I don't see Windows starting to use IPv6 yet.

Windows does have it, Windows XP requires a little tinkering, Windows Vista has it enabled out of the box.

 

[tittat]

The Internet as we know it cannot run on IPv4. While the matter isn’t so urgent that you have to drop everything you’re doing and switch to IPv6 immediately, it is something that companies and organizations should begin to carefully examine.

 

[DeadBattery]

There is only like 10 million addresses with IPv4. The world will move on to IPv6. More and more people are using the Internet, and IPs are going to run out. Now if we incorporate letters into the numbers, that will last longer.