Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] What I would have said...

[Kent Crispin]

On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 04:32:58PM -0700, Bill Lovell wrote:
> For the benefit of dumb butt here, what's the IP size of the new IPv6 thing?
> (Did I get that right?)  It's not a "dotted quad," I take it, so what is
> it? And
> its capacity is 2 to the what?

128 bits  vs 32 bits for IPv4.  That's 

340282366920938463463374607431768211456
vs
4294967296

addresses, if I did the arithmetic correctly...

Or 56713727820156410577229101238 addresses for every human on earth,
give or take a few. 

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