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Ipv6 has enough addresses for all the federation planets

(340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses)

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[–] gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Most people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are

You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6

Holy shit this is such an insane number

[–] cooopsspace 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them.

Ok maybe phone dependence has gone too far at that point.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 10 months ago

Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People don't think about it cause my ipv4 still works. Well fuck ourselves when we get to that bridge.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I don't see it not working any time soon. Just pile on the NATs

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or by that point they will have created a self scaling system

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They ended up skipping it and moving on to IPv7