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Presuming you're noting exponentiation with ^, 4 billion ^ 4 billion addresses would mean 128 gigabits per address. IPv6 addresses don't take up half a gigabyt
by KMag 13y ago
Presuming you're noting exponentiation with ^, 4 billion ^ 4 billion addresses would mean 128 gigabits per address. IPv6 addresses don't take up half a gigabyte each in any sane encoding.
IPv6 has 128-bit addresses, which works out to about 4 billion ^ 4 addresses, not 4 billion ^ 4 billion addresses.
- IgorPartola 13y agoMy original comment said 4 billion ^ 4 addresses, as in 2^128. There is no second "billion" in that line.