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IPv6

IPv6

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IPv6

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- Something absolutely amazing is taking place on your computer and you probably don't even know it. The internet has run for decades using an addressing scheme called IPv4. So, let me show you an example IPv4 address. Now, if you look at this address, you'll see that we've got four values that go between, well, basically, 1 and 254. So there's four of these values separated by three dots. So when you look at this value, every computer that's actually on the internet must have some kind of IP address. And these IPv4 addresses have worked for decades and they've done a great job. Except for one big problem, we've run out of them. We literally don't have any more of these IPv4 addresses. So instead, we have a new version of IP coming out called IPv6. Now, with the old IPv4, let's get rid of that mess. With the old IPv4, you had a total of 4 billion addresses. And this is amazing because when they originally invented IP addressing, they would say things like, "Well, you know, we could…

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