IPv4 Address Use In 2008 258
An anonymous reader writes "The world used 197 million new IPv4 addresses in 2008, leaving 926 million addresses still available. The US remains the biggest user of new addresses, but China is catching up quickly. Quoting Ars Technica: 'A possible explanation could be that the big player(s) in some countries are executing a "run on the bank" and trying to get IPv4 addresses while the getting is good, while those in other countries are working on more NAT (Network Address Translation) and other address conservation techniques in anticipation of the depletion of the IPv4 address reserves a few years from now. In both cases, adding some IPv6 to the mix would be helpful. Even though last year the number of IPv6 addresses given out increased by almost a factor eight over 2007, the total amount of IPv6 address space in use is just 0.027 percent.'"
ipv6 increases by a factor of almost 8. (Score:5, Funny)
0.027% (Score:5, Funny)
the total amount of IPv6 address space in use is just 0.027 percent
So how many is that, in quadrillions?
Re:0.027% (Score:2, Funny)
wow, finally!
In other news .027% of slashdotters can understand what they read.
Someone please answer this? (Score:4, Funny)
Why not just take every existing IPv4 address and make it an alias for the same IPv6 address, but with 5 zeros in front of it? And declare that the owners of those IPv4 addresses now own the corresponding IPv6 addresses?
Re:Can someone calculate that for me? (Score:3, Funny)
I can get an address for every friggin cell in my body.
Finally missing piece of the puzzle. When IPv6 was first planned it suppose to give enough addresses for every cell phone, but apparently due to miscommunication, they made it large enough to give address to every cell.
Re:Can someone calculate that for me? (Score:1, Funny)
For all practical purposes, I would estimate that IPv6 is about 64k times larger than IPv4.
That should be enough for anyone.