When will everyone finally switch to IPv6? We're running out of IPv4 addresses pretty quickly, and DHCP only slightly mitigates the problem, but it is by no means a solution.
seriously how do they work ?
u have one external ip and u download the file to rooter
how does rooter no which comp in home network it goes it???
ips = magic
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ISPs rarely provide better service than the market demands. 90% of home customers don't know about the address space problem and none of them are affected by it. So we're not going to have IPv6 anytime soon.
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Anonymous2011-08-25 19:45
IPv6 is a bloated ``solution'' to a non-existent problem. Does anybody actually dislike NAT that much that they want a unique IP address for their alarm clock?
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Anonymous2011-08-25 19:55
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No, but I would like a unique routable IP address for my server.
(Speaking of servers, this is another reason why ISPs are more inclined to NAT home customers than switch to IPv6. "Now we don't have to go around checking for people running servers, we'll just NAT them!")
I know some (small) East-Asian ISPs are NAT'ing already. ISP itself only has a small number of public IPs and all the customer gets is an address on some 10.x.x.x subnet.
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Anonymous2011-08-25 20:58
>>10
I would like a unique routable IP addresses for my phones and gaming consoles. So would the whole of Asia which have been allotted a pitiful number of IPv4 IP blocks.
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Anonymous2011-08-26 1:37
If IPv6 had been designed to be backward compatible with IPv4 we'd have adopted it universally already.
As it is IPv6 is a bloated P.O.S.
Please, tell us another story （ ≖‿≖）
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n3n7i2011-08-26 2:12
Build one then...? =) Can't be that hard..
...This is /prog ! =D
Could swap the Netmask Values around
IP 127.0.0.1
NetMask 255.255.255.0 (FF.FF.FF.00) -Class C net?
NetMask II 255.255.255.0 (00.00.00.FF) ?? Class C^-1 ?
...for Twice as many Addresses?
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n3n7i2011-08-26 2:32
...Hows this? =)
Using four Bytes like that is pretty wasteful....
should be using four bits per byte at the 'very wasteful' most...
[One Byte should cover upto a 255 bit length address // 32 bits easily]
Leaving Almost a whole -nother IP address worth of Addressing Bits...