From 4c17989711a76866214f71f645fdf8fe785c15ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mms Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 11:57:10 +0100 Subject: chore: extract old blog posts to section --- content/blog/2023/size-of-ipv6.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2023/size-of-ipv6.md (limited to 'content/blog/2023/size-of-ipv6.md') diff --git a/content/blog/2023/size-of-ipv6.md b/content/blog/2023/size-of-ipv6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..060f409 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2023/size-of-ipv6.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: "Size of IPv6" +category: engineering +abstract: Just how big is IPV6? +date: 2023-04-27T22:34:53+02:00 +year: 2026 +draft: false +tags: +- networking +- IPv6 +- Absolute-FreeBSD +- Michael-W-Lucas +--- +[Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas](https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e): + +> IPv6 uses 128-bit [...] A 128-bit address space is unimaginably huge, but let’s try to imagine it. Count every human being that’s ever lived. Now count the number of cells in each of them—not just in their body but also all the bacterial cells in their bodies. IPv6 is roomy enough to assign each of those cells an address space larger than the entirety of IPv4. + -- cgit v1.2.3