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Introduction to IPv6

Introduction to IPv6

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Introduction to IPv6

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- Friends, we are in the midst of a revolution. In fact, the revolution is pretty much already over and a lot of people don't even know what has happened. What's taken place is the world of IP addresses has fundamentally changed. Now, what I'd like to do is, let's go ahead and put up a example IP address. Okay, so here's an IP address, a typical IP address. We've got our four values separated by three dots. Now this type of IP address, which we're now going to call IPV4, 'cause that's really what it is, has been serving us great for, I'm not even going to say, it's many decades. It's done a great job. But this has a big problem. This form of addressing, IPV4, has a total address space of around 4 billion addresses. So we can go all the way from four zeros like this all the way to 255.255.255.255 like this, and there's around 4 billion possible IP addresses. Now, if you've been following along through this series, you'll know addresses like four zeros and 255.255.255.255 cannot be used…

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