Stinger 0 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/technolo...&partner=GOOGLE I can't believe we are so close to using all the IP addy's so quick. But who knows out oil supply is supposed to have been depleted several times... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Ah yes. IPv6. Already in heavy use with certain technical/educational/geek circles. I'm not surprised we're running out of IPv4 addys. Heck, I've got at least six devices around here that need their own IP address if they weren't behind a router. With IPv4, there are only 4,294,967,296 possible combinations, and a non-trivial number of those are in the reserved private blocks, like the 192.168.*.* range as an example. Sure, 4 billiion sounds like a lot, but then again, ten million phone numbers per area code (in North America at the very least) sounds great, except that the last office I worked in, I had 7 phone numbers assigned directly to my desk. It's not that shocking that we're running out of assignments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 This is a problem that they have known about and really started becoming widely known in about 1997. When IPV4 was created, no one dreamed that everyone would own a PC, let alone the 3 or 4 that are becoming common in every household, not to mention the X Boxes, PS2's, and Nintendo game cubes, as well as Internet TV that all require IP addresses. There are people that either dont know about or are afraid of routers, because they fear they are too technical. ISP's for the most part no longer dole out static IP's and havent for a few years, because there arent enough to go around any longer, and if they do offer them, you pay as much as 20.00 a month for the privilige. If you think about all the users worldwide, and then think about the 4 something billion addresses there are, then remember that all of the 192.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x, 127.x.x.x(I believe, I could be wrong about this one), the 255.x.x.x, and there are some others also, that are reserved and not for public use, we are running into serious IP issues here very soon, just like we did with phone numbers. The only thing that has saved our asses up until now is DHCP, allowing users to use the same IP addy when it isnt in use by someone else. But even that is getting crowded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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