Video: Repent, Websurfers, The End Is Near
posted at 8:00 pm on July 7, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
This sounds like the Y2K problem, only a lot more realistic. According to PC Magazine’s Lance Ulanoff, we may be just a couple of years away from the end of the Internet — or at least the end of its expansion. It’s not from lack of interest, but a built-in limitation of the addressing system known as Internet Protocol, or IP:
Like Y2K, the solution is easy, but getting people to spend money on it is the problem. It took a lot of hyperbole and sky-is-falling hysteria in 1999 for users to finally get rid of their old DOS 3.0 machines and old database systems that couldn’t recognize a year that didn’t start with 19. Unfortunately, the pressure this time won’t be on the people with IP addresses already, but the people who want new addressing.
Maybe the Internet will be a club — closed to new membership, only allowing replacements for those who opt off the system or die. It’ll be a case of who you know. That means … you’d better start being really, really nice to those of us with our own IPs.
Update: As always, South Park has foreseen the catastrophe (h/t RightWinged):
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Ok being the computer dork I can be. Why not put extra numbers on the end? Or can that not be done…
Someone please explain this to me in 2 yr old terms please.
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Do you own your own IP or your own domain? I suspect the latter. Let’s hope that you always have an IP to point it at. :-)
DaveS on July 7, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Ed, have I ever told you what an awesome writer you are?
jgapinoy on July 7, 2008 at 8:07 PM
IPv6 for the win.
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Somebody who can’t get laid will fix it :-)
Tony737 on July 7, 2008 at 8:09 PM
SOOOO wrong!
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 8:10 PM
You guys have any idea what an ass-ache IPv6 is for us in the enterprise software industry? We’ve been working on this for years.
The end is near…at least 20 years away until the next solution comes along.
flipflop on July 7, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Look up IP 6, it will (in theory) solve this issue. But even so, private network ranges (non-internet routable addresses, like those you get off your home router i.e. 192.168.x.x) have kept this interWeb expansion boogie monster at bay. It will continue to do so for some time.
Nothing to see here, move along.
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:11 PM
AlGore is all over this in 3….2…1
There’s money to be made in them thar interwebs…
Of course, this has, just like Y2K, a foreseeable expiration date…But I’m sure the bottled water/fallout shelter market will have a nice bump…
BigWyo on July 7, 2008 at 8:11 PM
To the contrary, you with your own IPs better hope that Obama and the Democrat Congress doesn’t decide that government has a role in determining who gets IP addresses.
highhopes on July 7, 2008 at 8:12 PM
I’m with upinak…..why is the solution so costly?
Also, are we being very forward thinking with the solution (making it flexible so it won’t be expensive if we need to add a few billion more sites in a couple more decades) or are we setting ourselves up for the same problem down the road.
JadeNYU on July 7, 2008 at 8:12 PM
@spec_ops_mateo: Yeah… it will be a non-issue.
It’s a bit overblown to begin with… a single IP address can serve many domain names.
DaveS on July 7, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Alarmists…
Wade on July 7, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Of course it is an ass ache, someone has to make money off of it. I feel your pain, I’m a network admin for the government and let us just say we got some rather large networks.
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Essentially, that’s the solution. It requires upgrading to the new version of the Internet Protocol (version 6) also known as IPv6. The current version is 4.
apollyonbob on July 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM
[upinak on July 7, 2008 at 8:05 PM]
I don’t know. That would have been my idea, but you’d at least need software to recognize the new system. And maybe the ethernet cards? Or Is it an issue of bits and bits and they’d have to go to 8 (16?) number addresses instead of 4?
Like Tony737 implies, only people who can’t get laid really understand all this stuff.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 8:14 PM
bits and bytes
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 8:14 PM
IP stuff is easy to understand. And so are women, I get laid all the time. Sometimes while I’m programming stuff!
Chicks dig smart guys that make lots of money.
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM
The point is moot. Barry O’s Minister of Information and Propaganda, Herself, will have long since reintroduced The Fairness Doctrine to stifle any media dissent and will have long since shut down HA and other freedom-loving websites. When there’s only shopping, porn and democRat websites, blogs, etc. available on the Web, there will be a lot less traffic on it. Hence, no need for more IP addresses.
GeneSmith on July 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM
[spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM]
LOL. You only know what the geeks who can’t get laid let you know. :)
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Kind of an aside, but I’m deployed right now – and just got back from a USO sponsored concert. It is 3am and I’m too stoked to sleep – The band Sevendust played and rocked this place! If you ever want to support a good charity, give money or time to the USO.
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM
It’s the latest fearmongering-to-sell-news headline. With each passing year, it gets more blatant and ridiculous. “The end of the Internet!!!!!!!” Gawd almighty.
Splashman on July 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM
IPv6 is supposedly already being implemented.
The bulk of IP’s are used to connect to the Internet, we dont own them, the service provider does. Now I would guess we could go to court for the use of them arguing that a service provider does not have a right to cut us off.
Owning an IP for an internet site really does no good.
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Thanks. When it comes to computer, give me the software and let me do my damn job. That is how most people are this day and age. As for running it, building it and so forth… I am not that savy.
I don’t own my own IP address, I never thought about it. But the 20 yr thing is really ticking me off. I can’t stand the people who do “The Sky is Falling” routine.
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM
[spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM]
Thanks for the reminder. Will do.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 8:23 PM
As long as we keep the government as far away from this as possible, it will be just fine.
Wade on July 7, 2008 at 8:24 PM
REDBULL!!!! Good Luck, come home safe, and when you can get a nap in!
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Chicks dig
smartguys that make lots of money.spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Fixed.
Back on topic, I’m not terribly concerned just yet. Most IP’s aren’t actively being used at any given time; just reducing IP lease times would help stretch the current supply.
I remember when the big concern was running out of phone numbers, since many thought that having to change their area code would be an outrageous inconvience. Turns out people adapted quite well.
Hollowpoint on July 7, 2008 at 8:25 PM
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM
I’ve seen Sevendust live 3 times (I think), and they are really good live. I hope you had fun!
DaveS on July 7, 2008 at 8:25 PM
No, that means ‘Those of us with our own IPs’ better start being nice to those of us with our own guns…
BigWyo on July 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Am I the only one reminded of the recent South Park episode “Over Logging”?
Watch it here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/
(Go to the full episodes thing, and then it’s in season 12 – “Over Logging”)
RightWinged on July 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM
I support the USO and USO – Operation Up Link (I think that’s it…it’s the phone cards for deployed soldiers program). Needless to say, I’ve got Red, white and blue address labels taking over my apartment! It’s nice to know that the money really is being put to good use.
JadeNYU on July 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM
It was the second time I saw them (actually just saw them right before I deployed in December down at Janis Landing in St. Pete).
They played an all acoustic set because they didn’t want soldiers moshing and getting messed up; like when Disturbed had soldiers in the pit moshing, many who forgot they were carrying rifles. Haha. I heard many stories about that one =)
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Thank you =)
spec_ops_mateo on July 7, 2008 at 8:29 PM
I don’t know….I always end up attracted to the IT/programmer guys at my company and they don’t make much. Though, what they do make is spent on video games, and that works for me.
Not sure if I’m hot enough to count as a “chick”…I do get described as “cute, in that girl-next-door kinda way” though, so maybe that gives me enough standing to say brains over money without people thinking I’m a desperate chick that will take what she can get. ;)
JadeNYU on July 7, 2008 at 8:30 PM
I’m not worried over this. It will get resolved and there’s no way the internet will ever be limited.
The ideas/applications, bright and inane, are unlimited – therefore, the internet will be too.
You’re not kidding Tony. I researched once what psychology the virus creators possess. They are for the most part males, not good looking, lonely, nerdy, not loved as children, not successful with women. Once the get found out, a countermeasure is found, they move to the next virus/challenge. It’s what they have an ‘orgasm’ over.
Entelechy on July 7, 2008 at 8:32 PM
What a great scam this is! Internet Time Share! The fat cats are some smart SOBs.
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Gag, IPv6 suck-a-ma-fies to the Nth degree, but what ya gonna do? no one ever thought Al Gore’s lil’ invention would get so big, eh?
-Wasteland Man.
P.S. if ya have Vista it has IPv6 built in look in yer help files (not that that’s much help!)
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:34 PM
Nice story Ed, but you should have picked a better still for the link. Your last paragraph combined with the still gave me a chill. Are you forecasting the commission of crimes just to obtain IP addresses?
Zaire67 on July 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Sorry, this is so dumb, that I blushed, but I can’t help myself…
Where can we buy internet_footprints? Maybe Gore, who did invent the thing, will sell them to us, and get another Nobel…
Entelechy on July 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM
[WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 8:21 PM]
Well, I doubt it would be a cut off thing. It will be more like a delay thing, similar to the early 90′s where where the service providers used a round robin sharing of IP addresses. it was much less difficult for them to do that when you had to dial up and make a positive connection than it is now with 24/7 connection, but the would find a way.
But the squeeze is happening quickly, though. Two years ago, I had four IP’s from my service provider and now I am down to two. They explained it was because of that squeeze. I suspect it was also partly because of the usage.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Hey nothing wrong with the Girl Next Door. I am one.. and a TomBoy… :) Guys appreciate you differently and count on you more then they realize.
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Al the Gore was unavailable for comment…
Zorro on July 7, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Hey wait, I thought you all fell in love with the UPS/FedEx/DHL guys?
TheBigOldDog on July 7, 2008 at 8:37 PM
This is all BS. Each ip can resolve to sub-ips
TheSitRep on July 7, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Basically your IP Adress will go from:
192.168.1.1
to:
0:0:0:0:0:ffff:192.168.1.1
Which for those of us who have to work with this stuff ever-day does indeed SUCK-A-MA-FY!
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Its like telephone numbers several are easy to remember but IPv6 is gonna make my brain MUSH! (or mush-ier as the case may be.)
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:41 PM
HEH!!!!
Put it on Craig’s List…You will make money….Just use InterWebs instead…
BigWyo on July 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Jade and Upinak,
Allow me to clarify something. You read Hot Air … ergo, you are Hot.
Thank you.
Ed Morrissey on July 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM
[WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:40 PM]
Now why would they choose to do that rather than just 0.0.0.0.192.168.1.1
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM
I remember those early 90′s days. It would take forever to load a page. It was easy to get lost in the web and never find a page you once visited.
I remember making a website back around 1994 or 05 for story books.
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Actually it is not 0.0.0.0.192.168.1.1
It is : 0000:0000:0000:
There will be all kinds of ifs, like 4 0′s, becomes strictly a :
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Truly a nonissue. Global warming will have so decimated the earth by then that the few survivors will spend most of their time fighting over cans of pork and beans. And most optical cable will be underwater.
And the guys with the canned food will get the girls.
snaggletoothie on July 7, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Just an example….
I threw in the HEXadecimal number just to show that beyond numbers in yer IP you have to deal with hex. (a numbering system that is based on 0-15 rather than 1-10 or binary 0-1) which again trying to remember all that is brain wrecking when ya don’t have updated DHCP servers that can deal with it. but! That’s just me and all my OLD networks hell I live in LOL. (I help administer about 35 OLD networks)
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Yeah? Well my IP goes to 11……..
Seven Percent Solution on July 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM
What is a little hex among friends?
Surely you aren’t running out of Class A addresses. Hell, in the field we were using Class B addy’s. Plenty of room down at the B level with 65k hosts. If you are running out of A’s then it is time to do some housecleaning. 17 million hosts should be enough.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 7, 2008 at 8:51 PM
Sure, but you can tell people how young(old) you are, without lying :)
Entelechy on July 7, 2008 at 8:52 PM
Nitpickers! dang I am trying to show the folks who dont have a clue (or minimal knowledge about networks whats going on LOL. I KNOW there are some of you out there that KNOW this stuff inside and out. “If the rock don’t hit ya don’t holler.” I think was the quote of the day the other day in the threads LOL (hattip Baldilocks Luv ya Baldi!)
cuz reading this IPv6 Is a REAL snorefest for most folks!
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:52 PM
Ich liebe sie auch Etenlenchy!
but I said my NETWORKS are OLD not me! :D
..although I am getting that taylor hicks look before my time.
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:54 PM
er… Entelechy
crap I am old LOL….
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:55 PM
No, no, WastelandMan (gleiche Liebe :) – I did not mean that you are old, just that you can tell them your age in hexadecimal, which makes it appear much younger, and they wouldn’t know, and you wouldn’t be lying :)
Entelechy on July 7, 2008 at 8:56 PM
No worries WM, on E, nor on age. I don’t like ‘em that young. They don’t know much.
Entelechy on July 7, 2008 at 8:57 PM
Me don’t know?
Can Fairness Doctrine in any shape or form
be applied to this?
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 8:57 PM
NIiiiiiccce! :)
I’m off to mc-Ds but Ill try to keep up with thread on their wireless LOL. MMMMMMMM cheesburger.
-Wasteland Man
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:58 PM
canopfor, on all things internet, taxes included, only if we let our leftards, and the French be in charge of the decision-making.
Entelechy on July 7, 2008 at 8:58 PM
So what does this mean to that ‘smart’ house of the future. You know, the one that polls the refrigerator and sends the order to PigglyWiggly. The one that picks up the morning paper and flips the pages for you while you sitting on the john? The RFIDs reporting the consumers every move?
‘POK-Y-LIPS’ I tell ya. It’s the ‘pok-y-lips for sure.
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Because billions of lines of code rely on the current formatting of IP addresses. Suppose a software engineer makes 25$ an hour (a very conservative estimate). It’s pretty obvious that it would cost an exorbitant amount of money. Adding a couple of digits may seem easy, until you consider the gargantuan framework that everything is built upon IPv4.
Pent. on July 7, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Damned Malthusians. They’re always wrong.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on July 7, 2008 at 9:01 PM
So what you’re saying is IP6 will open the door for more porn…
tlynch001 on July 7, 2008 at 9:03 PM
…and wasn’t Davoraks’ big dumb ass saying that Vista was going to crash the internet because of all the IPv6 traffic it would “flood the internet with”… Whatever… These dudes write articles about how shitty windows is because “system idle process” uses 99% of the processor when nothing is going on. I think they also but the apple newton on lists of the greatest and worst tech gadgets.
If I could roll my eyes harder I’d get a brain hemorrhage.
liquidflorian on July 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM
I believe the cost is for new equipment that can process the new IP address.
There is a logo forum that is like a seal of approval, meaning the product meets the IPv6 format.
Why I dont think it is as big a deal as they are making it out to be, these companies are always buying new equipment. The new servers being bought will be able to process the new IP’s. If you buy an old server, you will be faced with having to upgrade sooner. But I think I am making it to simplistic.
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM
That is all that matters. But if there was no porn, we would have 10 years worth of IPv4 left.
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM
on all things internet.
Entelechy on July 7,2008 at 8:58PM.
Entelechy:Well,you know how coniving the Libs are,
and decision-making,noooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooo,not the stinkin French!
haha.:)
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM
I see that somebody read “The Road”.
Mind you, in “The Road” the guys killed and ate the girls, and anything else they could get their hands on.
flenser on July 7, 2008 at 9:07 PM
Please, we’ll all be burnt masses of flesh by that time, and all the polar bears will be dead!
SouthernGent on July 7, 2008 at 9:11 PM
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 8:44 PM
WastelandMan on July 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Well, that just put me back a chapter in the book of knowledge. I appreciate you trying to explain it though.
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM
I came on in I think the spring of ’91 using Prodigy because of all the complaints I’d heard about AOhell and, if I remember right had a front page to work through too, a system I never liked. All the providers were getting overloaded and by fall ppl were screaming at AOhell for not letting them connect.
I think it was just before x-mas they announced they were going to rates by usage, not by month. Prodigy, and I think others said they were going to do it and AOhell backed off, but it seemed like a year before they had ungraded to where their users got reliable access again, at least judging by the ebbing of connection complaints.
Ah, those were the days.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 9:11 PM
OT: In Planet of the Apes, what caused the effect of the Apes taking over? I know it may be over 20 years old, but something the other day reminded me of it, think it had to do with Politics.
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 9:12 PM
Yep, IPV.6 — Most Linux OSes and browsers already have IPV6 on board, many IPs use it already, the switch-over should be transparent to the users. Linux and Firefox systems come IPV6 enabled, you have to turn it off if you don’t want it now.
Of course if Obama wins the election, you probably won’t be able to afford the connect time, can’t have people escaping the drive by media strangle hold on the daily propaganda feed can we?
tarpon on July 7, 2008 at 9:17 PM
So is Hot Air’s address v4 or v6?
TexasDan on July 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Allahpundit has another job?
Darth Executor on July 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Boring. NAT will hold this off. It would suit me fine if the Internet imploded, however.
ClassicCon on July 7, 2008 at 9:40 PM
The racism here is appalling.
No one has yet asked how this will affect Michelle’s kids.
:)
aikidoka on July 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Banned? If not, that’s classic!
RMCS_USN on July 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
XP with the right drivers does IPV6.
The issue is not the software but the hardware on the backbone and tiers of the net.
The Federal Government just announced that their internal networks have all been certified for passing IPv6 packets by June 30,2008.
Right now I work with some of it by using tunneling protocols to do the work arounds.
Yes it would help if Class A and B addresses were returned to the pool for re allocation, but they still wouldn’t help that much unless some were blocked assigned for usage in NAT setups with say 2048 nodes internal or something to the likes of that.
Otherwise you have to use hacks to get around the router limitations and do adhoc things like port triggering to throw the packets where you want them to go.
CommentGuy on July 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Can’t they just make the tubes longer?
James on July 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Hot Airs IP is
http://67.192.179.11/
WoosterOh on July 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
The addresses will get longer, but only the people who have to make things work will really need to worry. Almost everything you see is addressed by name, courtesy of the Domain Naming System. And your network cards are safe; they address each other individually by a different kind of address (the MAC address, which has nothing to do with Apple).
Why not have a look at Wikipedia for IP and IPv6?
njcommuter on July 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Add a fifth octet.
RMCS_USN on July 7, 2008 at 9:53 PM
This isn’t new news. Been known for a long time. Vista, OS X (and other BSDs), and Linux support IPv6, so not a problem at the desktop. They guys who will feel the IPv6 pain the most are the networking and software dev guys. Most people will never know what’s changing. Also, NAT will buy some time.
raz0r on July 7, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Blame the elitist al gore for inventing the faulty internet!
maverick muse on July 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Surely to goodness you are kidding here…please?
I spent the better part of two years editing OLD OLD OLD COBOL and RPG code that contained medical information for university hospital patients. We changed firmware on security systems. We installed new elevators and electronic doors. We checked, tested, upgraded, and in at least one case re-wrote drivers for aging medical systems.
Thousands of other geeks were busy over those two years leading up to the New Years Eve we all dreaded so other folks could deride us right up to this present day for our “hyperbole” and “sky-is-falling hysteria”.
Folks…thank yer local geek for a peaceful year 2000. We saved yer butts and the only way you would know different is if we were not as professional and dedicated to our tasks.
Man…I feel like the President must feel. No terrorist attacks in almost 8 years now and yet HE is still the bad guy.
Tongue only slight in cheek,
Pilgrim
Pilgrim on July 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Oh puhleese stop that damn doom & gloom machine…it ain’t oing the chillins any good….friggin Liberals will wet their pants for any good lie!
el Vaquero on July 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM
PS I think it is time to unleash the Laughfest Campaign against the Leftist/Commie/OldAss Hippies…someone clue in the McCain boyz let’s just use satire and humor on them, you know how them commie/Fascist are so not gay and can’t take a joke!
el Vaquero on July 7, 2008 at 10:11 PM
000000 Power!
Obama08
/s
TheSitRep on July 7, 2008 at 10:13 PM
For those of us on PCs it won’t matter. The ISPs will still give us ipv4 addresses, and no one ISP will run out. The ISPs and the telcos themselves will run IPv6. If you need a public presence like this website you will get a NAT.
The technology is already there and has been built into new operating systems for sometime. There will be no costly upgrades or mad rushes like Y2k.
paulsur on July 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Pilgrim on July 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Preach it, brother. While it’s true the media hyped it and got a lot of stuff wrong – as usual – I know a lot of people who worked a lot of overtime in 1998-99 because of facts, not hype.
Businesses will do it again with this issue, and the problem will be solved before it becomes really huge.
Laura on July 7, 2008 at 10:19 PM
No more domain names, no more webpages, not entirely true.
I used to work at an ISP and all of the websites we hosted all ran on ONE IP address. Routers, nameservers, virtual IPs are good like that.
Same thing when our users were mostly dial up, they all were on one IP and virtual IPs on the inside.
There are was to stave it off but most admins are lazy/sloppy.
- The Cat
My problem with this thinking is if you are going to do it, why stop at 6? Why not open it up more or have someway to patch it later to extend it. IP6 solving all the problems is like getting a 1 gig hard drive back in the day (when a HUGE program was 4megs) and saying, “I’ll never fill this up.”
MirCat on July 7, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Love that Southpark episode – “what did we used to do to get the news before the internet?” I canceled my cable TV a few months ago because between Netflix, Hulu, and all the broadcast TV websites there’s more than enough entertainment available, and I get my news primarily from Hot Air and other blogs anyway. So if we “run out of internet” I’m hosed.
Laura on July 7, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Uh, Microsoft has supporte IPV6 since NT 4.0. Its all in the stack and the Hardware Abstraction layer, and will be totaly transparent to any properly written software.
Software does NOT connect directly to an IP address, it grabs a socket (old school), of a procedure call, which addresses the IP stack, which is in charge of finding the destination and creating the IP session which is used to transport data…
Talking different layers of the IP stack here folks.
Only pain with IPV6 is getting the new addresses into both the new routers, and DNS (as old DNS servers did not understand IPV6 addresses).
You don’t need to upgrade network cards as the IP address resolution does NOT work at the network card layer, but in the OS itself.
Romeo13 on July 7, 2008 at 10:44 PM
I own 200 of them, I have always wanted to be an IP Lord….
AprilOrit on July 7, 2008 at 10:49 PM
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