On 1/28/07, Almir Karic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you are missing some things, the most important of which are that ipv6
is supposed to last for DECADES and all computers behind nat should
get their public ips (that is what someone suggested earlier).
those are two by far the most important things you ommited from your
calculation, others are some ips won't be availible to ''average''
human beings (private ip ranges, broadcast adresses, router
adresses...), also enterprise will grab crapload of ips for business
needs.
On 1/28/07, Michael Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/28/07, Almir Karic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > they said the SAME thing about ipv4.... :/
> >
> >
> > > 65536 x the total number of possible 48-bit MAC addresses.
> > >
> >
> > irrelevant.
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> >
> > --
> > almir
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> Why not try to calculate a bit.
> well the number is a bit big so it hard to just imagine it
> and hard to compare to other numbers.
> But if there are forexample 6 billion people on earth.
> They could each have 2^128-2^33=2^95 ip adresses.
>
> 2^95 = 39.614.081.257.132.168.796.771.975.168
>
> I think i can cope a year or two before i i need more than that. :)
>
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almir
Yes i purposefully omitted that.
What i was trying to say is that it is a huge number,
even if large areas of the ip adresses was preserved or given
to large entities, like companies, universities whatever,
Or otherwise reserved for special purposes.
Even if some numbers was taken and never released, and others
reserved , i am pretty sure
though not certain that i couldnt find an effective way
of wasting away all that,.
look again at the numbers that is there, and think
about how to use up all of them.in a couple of decades,
i cant see it.
Also there is some kind of of number "blindness"
for such huge numbers, I Would have to do some more
calculations to be sure i didnt miss something.
however with just the small calculations ive done
in previous post, i cannot see that we run dry
not for decades either.
My smartphones could have a billion
ip adresses each, and EVERYBODY could do
that without exhausting the adress space.
And i could have 1 billion smartphones and more.
i could then have 1 billion RFID chips for each smartphone.
I might then have to limit myself a bit since
As you say a crapload of adress ranges are given to
enterprises
(I might no be able to use all my smartphones before i die
and i hope they come in more than one colour!)
I think! that might last us at least 1 decade.
But i could be wrong :)
please suggest a good way to use up all adresses in
just 20 years.
cognacc
