What about version 5?
5 was some protocol flop from the 70's IIRC (was born in 80s!)
Anywho anyone out there using v6 yet?
I know one day its going to be a must, but 10 years ago they said by this year we would be forced now they say we still have a few years.. who knows.
i do know the last block of unallocated addresses have been distributed so no more new IPs to the RIRs.
I dabbled a bit with he.net's tunnelbroker service (as a geek i find it very cool and its free) but have heard of other similar servers, sixxs.net.
I setup a tunnel and have a few subnets allocated to me (a 64bit block and an entire 48 block of my own PUBLIC addresses!!! free!!! sweet!!!! yes!!! no nat!!!)
i find something so cool about pinging my ipv6 network devices from somewhere accross the globe, watching trace routes from another continent enter my router and travel through several other routers (the virtual ones, that is, gns3) to finally get to the destination. oh and seeing my domain for some hops in a trace route (reverse address). I have actually had dreams about packets and routes before. i need a life lol.
ahhh the im-connected feeling we all feel like we need.
just curious if anyone else is curious about it or enthusiastic as i am
The only thing that took me a bit to get to get stuck in my head was the concept of running two protocols over same line. After that became normal then everything else seemed to fall into place, email, web sites, dns, etc.
Also at first i thought subnetting hexadecimal (words? hextets? hexadecitet?) would be a nightware so i kept putting it off. In all reality its super easy.
The idea here is that, due to such an enormous address space, subnetting in v6 be less complex than v4, for example a p2p link may just use an entire 64 block, whereas in v4 you that would be a 30 bitmask to conserve space. If you get 48block you have PLENTY of space left for 64 bit blocks(a 48 block can have 65536 64bit subnets), and you can start your subnetting at :0000:: followed by :0001:: and so on. So in all actuality it is less complex than calculating a 30, 28, 28, 27 etc bitmasks in your head and counting subnets. Lets say you only get a 64 block, you subnet that into /80 blocks and still have 65536 subnets (of /80s) with almost 3 trillion host addresses per /80 subnet
Its all the same concept just a new protocol (or just a new pattern of address).
5 was some protocol flop from the 70's IIRC (was born in 80s!)
Anywho anyone out there using v6 yet?
I know one day its going to be a must, but 10 years ago they said by this year we would be forced now they say we still have a few years.. who knows.
i do know the last block of unallocated addresses have been distributed so no more new IPs to the RIRs.
I dabbled a bit with he.net's tunnelbroker service (as a geek i find it very cool and its free) but have heard of other similar servers, sixxs.net.
I setup a tunnel and have a few subnets allocated to me (a 64bit block and an entire 48 block of my own PUBLIC addresses!!! free!!! sweet!!!! yes!!! no nat!!!)
i find something so cool about pinging my ipv6 network devices from somewhere accross the globe, watching trace routes from another continent enter my router and travel through several other routers (the virtual ones, that is, gns3) to finally get to the destination. oh and seeing my domain for some hops in a trace route (reverse address). I have actually had dreams about packets and routes before. i need a life lol.
ahhh the im-connected feeling we all feel like we need.
just curious if anyone else is curious about it or enthusiastic as i am
The only thing that took me a bit to get to get stuck in my head was the concept of running two protocols over same line. After that became normal then everything else seemed to fall into place, email, web sites, dns, etc.
Also at first i thought subnetting hexadecimal (words? hextets? hexadecitet?) would be a nightware so i kept putting it off. In all reality its super easy.
The idea here is that, due to such an enormous address space, subnetting in v6 be less complex than v4, for example a p2p link may just use an entire 64 block, whereas in v4 you that would be a 30 bitmask to conserve space. If you get 48block you have PLENTY of space left for 64 bit blocks(a 48 block can have 65536 64bit subnets), and you can start your subnetting at :0000:: followed by :0001:: and so on. So in all actuality it is less complex than calculating a 30, 28, 28, 27 etc bitmasks in your head and counting subnets. Lets say you only get a 64 block, you subnet that into /80 blocks and still have 65536 subnets (of /80s) with almost 3 trillion host addresses per /80 subnet
Its all the same concept just a new protocol (or just a new pattern of address).
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