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Working with IPv6 addressing

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Working with IPv6 addressing

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- [Instructor] After this point, we've been discussing IPv4.. Now let's talk about IPv6. IPv6 is a newer protocol and eventual replacement for IPv4. IPv6 was created to solve a big problem. We were running out of IPv4 addresses. To explain, an IPv4 address is a 32 bit number. If you do the math to calculate the number of combinations you can create from those 32 bits, it's about 4.3 billion. Back in the 1990s, no one could have imagined there would be a worldwide web of computers like we have now and certainly couldn't anticipate how many IP addresses would be necessary. Certainly not 4.3 billion. However, a couple of years ago we did run out. With that in mind, let's look more closely at IPv6 and how it provides more addressing than IPv4. First, an IPv6 address has an available 128 bits which is a lot more than IPv4's 32. If you do the math to calculate the number of combinations available, it's about 340 trillion…

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