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Your computer uses an ip address to transfer and receive information. The last generation standard was called IPv4. Most Internet Service Providers still use the Last Generation technology .

There is "4,294,967,296" unique IPv4 address to be shared around the world, and there is a big shortage of the amount availible, mean while there is '340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456' unique IPv6 addresses

There are a number of ways to get an IPv6 address , to find out how visit:
http://linuxreviews.org/features/ipv6/ (this is a linux website)

Regards, Critux

There isn't really a severe IP shortage, technically there are 4,080,829,783 IPv4 IPs available for use, that includes accounting for 1 gateway and subnet ip per 255 IP bracket and also the 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x and 172.16.x.x private ranges.
There is an extremely high number of IPs which have been reserved by various authorities for testing and development purposes (Class D or E, I forget which) and therefore rather drastically decreases the ammount of public IPs in the short term.
As I understand it, the internet doesn't have 4 billion users, seeing as the population of the world is somewhere around 6 billion, a great deal of which are living in poverty stricken, 3rd world countries where internet access is the last thing on their minds.
That said, I do personally use IPv6 but only for testing and experiemental purposes....that and IRC vhosts

I have experimented with IPv6 through free tunnel brokers services.
http://ipv6tb.he.net
here's one. There are few others also, and the process is quiet simple.
You get an account with the broker, they set you up with an IPv6 IP, and send you the information you need to activate IPv6 on your operating system.
In few minutes, you will be connecting to the internet with IPv6 protocol, through the broker's tunelling system.
Don't bother trying to connect to IRC, since most IPv6 enabled servers ban brokers IPs.
Its a good thing to check it out, since the future of the Internet Protocol will surely be v6.

C wrote:Its a good thing to check it out, since the future of the Internet Protocol will surely be v6.

Yes, that's it. The future. But not now. We have already seen the consequences of releasing a protocol without testing it intensively. Yet IPv6 will stay at an experimental stage for many years, I think, and that's a good thing.

Besides that, the real problem is not the address space. IPv4 has enough. It's going out of capacity because of too many organizations, which broke unnecessarily much address space. Still there are addresses, which have never been used by anybody. I guess, IPv6 will have this problem, too, unless there will be more restrictive conditions.

yea i agree... i think in reachable
future noone needs soo musch different adresses..
but can you tell me whats better with v6??
only more adresses?

Goblin wrote:but can you tell me whats better with v6??
only more adresses?

No, IPv6 will have a few improvements over IPv4. A few examples:

• Trivial: more addresses.
• Multicast and anycast addressing.
• Inline-encryption and inline-encodings (like compression).
• Every host on the internet gets local address space (obsoletes NAT).

IPv6 is very good but it's not very outgoing becouse some ISP won't allowed IPv6 reverse like some on phoenix servers. But in time i think everythink will change, IPv6 is very helpfull off k-line in session limit talking about IRC and for servers who have very long IP adress... :-)