IPv4 addresses to be exhausted by 2010

[mackycoi]

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The current stock of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted by 2010, “father of the internet” Vint Cerf has warned.

Now Google's chief internet evangelist, Cerf told ReadWriteWeb that running out of address space will prevent the internet from growing.

“We still have 80% of the world to connect,” he said. “If we don't [adopt IPv6] this wonderful economic engine, wonderful world of information will simply stop getting bigger.”

Google has already implemented many of its services and products with IPv6, running in parallel with IPv4, Cerf said, and he strongly urges everybody to do the same.

IPv4 is a 32-bit protocol, restricting the possible unique addresses to around 4.29 billion (232). By contrast, IPv6 uses 128 bit addresses, supporting 2128 addresses.

Cert co-designed the TCP/IP protocol while working as an assistant professor at Stanford between 1972 and 1976.

Feb 25, 2009
telecomasia.net

[vern]

Let's worry about this like we worried about Y2K.

[stealthghost]

IPv4 addresses to be exhausted by 2010: Cert
just want to state the source.

[istoryanimo]

IPV6 ... hapit na!

[L1Technician]

I bet 2012 IPv4 still exist.

[toting]

yeah... IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, so better to have it now...

[L1Technician]

IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4

What kind of problem?

[Redman]

yaahhhh....Y2k ni panic padong..............................

[bishop__]

so we better get ready.
These are figures taken from 2008 IPv4 Address Use Report

Date         Addresses free   Used up
2006-01-01      1468.61 M
2007-01-01      1300.65 M    167.96 M
2008-01-01      1122.85 M    177.80 M (with return of 16.78 M to IANA)
2009-01-01       925.58 M    197.27 M

here's my take about IPv6 Neuron Dumps: IPv6

learn enjoy!

[kensh1n]

yeah... IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, so better to have it now...

There is no problem with IPv4, the shortage of it was the problem.

Existing nman n sa uban.. I personally know some entities were already running hybrid networks running on both.


Just a rough idea.
On command prompt (WinXp)

ipv6 install (to install)
ipv6 uninstall (to uninstall)
ipconfig /all

See to appreciate the ipv6 ip address.