3 ms·
The OP is comparing the estimated number of humans on this planet (≈8.2 billion) to the known number of globally-routable, public IPv4 unicast addresses (<2^32≈
by wjholden 2y ago
The OP is comparing the estimated number of humans on this planet (≈8.2 billion) to the known number of globally-routable, public IPv4 unicast addresses (<2^32≈3.2 billion).
Network Address Translation (NAT) enables the sharing of public IPv4 addresses, to your point that there are likely more Internet-connected devices in this world than people.