IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6)
IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) 1. Why IPv6 Exists (Fundamental Problem) IPv6 was designed primarily to solve one unavoidable limitation of IPv4: Address exhaustion IPv4 provides: (2^{32} approx 4.3 ) billion addresses That sounded huge in 1980. It’s trivial today. Key milestone Exhaustion officially recognized around 2011 (RIR depletion, e.g. RIPE NCC) 2. Core […]