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I always thought to start they should have just allowed each octet two-ish more bits, so you could have 999.999.999.999. I know it’s the hackiest of all hacks,

I always thought to start they should have just allowed each octet two-ish more bits, so you could have 999.999.999.999. I know it’s the hackiest of all hacks, but it sure would have been an easy upgrade from the software perspective. And it would have given about a 256x increase in the number of ips. Which I kinda think actually might have served us for a long time.

ipython 4y ago
And where do those two extra bits go? How do existing routers that don’t know anything about two extra bits route those packets? Here’s the ip packet header: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPv4_Packet-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPv4_Packet-en.svg
- vlovich123 4y ago
  In this thread, lots of people seem to think in terms of 255.255.255.255 and fail to recognize the IP address is 32bits and the textual representation of 4 octets means very little. But the confidence and armchair expertise offered… wow.