2013-03-05, 12:59 PM
Curtiss Wrote:From what I understand (Warning: Wikipedia speed read!) it was intended to address the issue of IPv4 addresses running out. As you know IP addresses currently look something like this: 255.0.0.0; IPv6 addresses extend a lot further than that to prevent the issue of lacking addresses for all the signed on devices since all connected devices would need its own IP.
Basically this, but it's worse than that; IPv4 wastes a TON of addresses and is convoluted as all hell for no fucking reason. IPv6 has a much more uniform ruleset and wastes very few addresses.