IPv4 Net addresses now 95 percent used up

[Sporkman]

IPv4 Net addresses now 95 percent used up

by Stephen Shankland

The final stages of the squeeze are arriving: of the 4.3 billion Internet addresses possible with today's Net mainstream technology, 95 percent are gone.

That's the word Monday from the Number Resource Organization, a group representing the world's five regional Internet registries (RIRs) that dole out the numeric addresses...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019836-264.html

[TBABill]

Well it will be interesting when widespread IPV6 becomes a requirement. Linux distros will have some work to do to actually enable it without causing network issues that seem widespread. We usually disable it so we have better performance but will we retain that performance when we have to use IPV6 as well?

[matthewbpt]

The only issues I've encountered is having ipv6 enabled without a capable ipv6 network present.

[3rdalbum]

Well it will be interesting when widespread IPV6 becomes a requirement. Linux distros will have some work to do to actually enable it without causing network issues that seem widespread.

No, most distros are ready.

[alexan]

192.168.0.*
192.168.1.*
192.168.2.*
and
208.67.220.220
208.67.220.220



Give me decent, easy to remember, ipv6 alternative and I'll try to switch.


Edit question: does ::ffff:192.168.1.1 work as ipv6?