Many among our readers are familiar with the basic things of an IP address. They give a network address that is used to reliably route the traffic of the Internet to your PC, other device and the smart phone. The main problem is that the Internet is almost out from the available IP addresses. IPv4 is considered as the main IP technology. If anyone gets access to the internet, they get a particular IP address. All the IP addresses are not created equally.
There are different classes for IP addresses. Some of them are made for public use whereas there are some that are used privately. We can take the example of an IP address for Google.com when compared to the typical Netgear router. The public IP address of Google is 66.102.7.99 at the time for writing and the routers of Netgear by default can be reached from inside the network at 192.168.1.1. The “192” IP also known as Class C is meant for private use.
They are generally designed to be used with some type of NAT, for allowing many devices for operating behind a single network access point. The addresses of Class C can be reused, as they exist only within a private network. The IP address of Google.com is considered as Class A because it begins with 66. Te addresses of Class A cannot be reused, leading to the complete depletion of the available space for address as more IP addresses are used and requested.
Now is the right time. At this rate many new IP addresses are claimed, the common IPv4 publics address space- the pool of the total IPv4 addresses that are available can be depleted completely within a week. But, this does not mean that the Internet is over. Some of the clever public predicted this particular problem with IPv4 and developed IPv6 for having an exponentially larger space for address.
This particular page is made for giving a comparison of how many more IP addresses IPv6 can support. Google has already changed the switch on many different services and some ISPs are already silently rolling out the IPv6 to the different subscribers. Most of the recent operating systems offer at least basic support. People are hoping that this particular change will continue to move smoothly.
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