The internet is running out?
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virtualisation overcomes that hurdle
true. but still I can't see us using up millions and millions times more addresses than already being used.
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No, not if they upgrade it slowly.
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Not many, which is why it's being slowly introduced as equipment is ready.
I'll stick the apostrophe in for you
Doesn't need an apostrophe. He was right first time.
It can be done slowly? I was kinda under the impression that it was going to have to be a fairly quick jump. I don't know when the v4 addresses are going to run out, but won't we need to all have changed over before then?
On the bright side, v6 means no more port forwarding, right?
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Probably since NAT was introduced as a method of overcoming the depletion of available IPv4 addresses.
Presumably this is meant to be a 'clever' joke from people who actually don't know that much.
Some people deal with raw IP addressing at the backend and don't use DNS, or have to setup and configure DNS for others to benefit from...
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Technically shouldn't have an apostrophe, but definitely should be IPs, not IPS, because IPS is a different acronym altogether.
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Whoever says that it will not cost the consumer to do this is lying, becuase if I have a modem/router that only supports IPv4, and I sign up to an ISP that doesn't have any IPv4 addresses left, I will have to buy a new modem/router.
Technically shouldn't have an apostrophe, but definitely should be IPs, not IPS, because IPS is a different acronym altogether.
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Whoever says that it will not cost the consumer to do this is lying, becuase if I have a modem/router that only supports IPv4, and I sign up to an ISP that doesn't have any IPv4 addresses left, I will have to buy a new modem/router.
Dont they all give you a free router these days?
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You never know. What if things like nanobots end up requiring IP addresses? Several million IPs needed for a handful of dust!
I thought about that, but I just figured that that would happen at around the time skynet becomes self aware and we're all screwed by then anyways and the machines can deal with that problem!
That was taken into account seeing as his post was all caps.
It's like when people write "CD's" instead of "CDs". Really winds me up. CD's what?!
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Jevons paradox will take care of that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Long before the time IPV6 is close to its limits humans will be rocking quantum computers and heck, who knows, IP addresses may not even be needed with the way entanglement is being envisioned and theorised/tested right now (entangled particles working not only within space but also time).
TBH, nobody should need to worry about IPV6 addresses running out, at all.
TBH, nobody should need to worry about IPV6 addresses running out, at all.