We're out of IP addresses

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Cucurbita wrote on 2011-02-02 20:31

Supposedly, we're running out of IP addresses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376887,00.asp
abc33kr wrote on 2011-02-02 20:49

isn't IPv7 gonna solve that problem?
Bakuryu wrote on 2011-02-02 20:51

Quote from abc33kr;316946:
isn't IPv7 gonna solve that problem?

IPv6
But, yes.
abc33kr wrote on 2011-02-02 20:56

Quote from Bakuryu;316949:
IPv6
But, yes.

xP my bad with the number.
gentrone wrote on 2011-02-02 20:56

Apparently mobile devices and ISP's aren't ready for IPv6 yet.
Shirayuki wrote on 2011-02-02 20:56

IPv6 addresses are so big u.u
Cucurbita wrote on 2011-02-02 21:09

Quote from Shirayuki;316956:
IPv6 addresses are so big u.u

Now it'll take even more effort to put it all in when you're connecting ports :<
Shirayuki wrote on 2011-02-02 21:10

Quote from Cucurbita;316979:
Now it'll take even more effort to put it all in when you're connecting ports :<

QQ D':
Cucurbita wrote on 2011-02-02 21:16

Oh noes...
I hope all my netplay games will get an updated patch from the developers adjusting to IPv6.
Roy Mustang wrote on 2011-02-02 21:26

I'm not surprised. Last I heard from my networking class I took a couple years ago, IPv6 still has it's security issues. Have they made the security issues with that protocol any better? The thing with IPv6 is that people won't be hiding behind routers anymore as every computer will have it's own IP address.
Ninjam wrote on 2011-02-06 03:43

I just love learning something you know is going to be outdated very very soon. Im taking a computer networking class at this minute and my teacher told us that by the time we actualy get jobs, everything we learned will have changed.