IPv4 addresses run out in 2010

[PriyoBan]

THE AMERICAN Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has confirmed that Ipv4 numbers will have been exhausted by 2010 and the world urgently needs to move to Ipv6.

According to ArsTechnica, people occasionally provide fraudulent information to ARIN to obtain address space, and as the amount of IPv4 space remaining decreases, this could happen more often.

ARIN gives out IP addresses in North America and there are four similar organisations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Rest of the World.

The biggest problem for ARIN is that Ipv6 gives you very little advantage and too few users. According to ARIN's statistics, 19 percent of the IPv4 address space is still available, with 13 percent unavailable and 68 percent "allocated."

source:IPv4 addresses run out in 2010

 

[digital_brain]

then we will use IPv6 I guess

 

[Deepak]

Will have been is a very vague word, no one can predict the future, may be ots 2009 maybe its 2020; who knows

anyway most of the major trunk networks are already IPv6 ready, OS from XP come with it, Linux comes with it and IPv6 is to a certain degree compatible with IPv4 using tunnelling so maybe our ISP already uses IPv6 and we dont even kno it

Now all i got to do is learn those damn long IP addresses of IPv6 Pattern

 

[Kumar]

Vista inherently is IPV6...so i guess by 2010 if XPs evolution is anything to go by,vista will be mainstream which means that IPV6 adoption will be pretty good.

 

[blr_p]

w2k onwards is ipv6 compatible, but this shortage thing gets repeated every 5 yrs.

There are a few Class A addresses that can be rented out, when those run out then we can panic.

This was on /.recently, read and be enlightened.

 

[Deepak]

yep, but they aren't enabled by default in 2k/xp

and yeah shortage is bound to repeat, Class A was within IPv4, IPv4 has been around since ages, i think its one of the default protocols of Internet v1 no?

IPv6 is Classless no?? that should last a bit longer

 

[Renegade]

that should last a bit longer

Even if it werent, it has 8 hex blocks. Everyone on this planet can have many thousands of personal IP addresses. Even our pets can have one each.

With IPv6 we will have 79228162514264337593543950336 times more IP addresses than IPv4.

 

[Deepak]

i kno, but who knows maybe in the future we do have so many devices

 

[Kumar]

at the risk of being proven wrong,

"79228162514264337593543950336 ought to be enough for anyone"

 

[Deepak]

hmm, for 1 guy maybe, but for the whole wide world??

"is 7922816251426433750 enough for everyone :rofl:"

 

[techcheat]

Depends on how many devices would need public IPs???

 

[Sanav3]

yep, but they aren't enabled by default in 2k/xp

and yeah shortage is bound to repeat, Class A was within IPv4, IPv4 has been around since ages, i think its one of the default protocols of Internet v1 no?

IPv6 is Classless no?? that should last a bit longer

W2K does not support IPv6...

XP n WS03 do support IPv6.. it has to be installed ..

and Vista has a model that combines IPv4 and IPv6...

 

[Deepak]

didnt kno abt 2k

in xp i m pretty sure its already installed, we just have to enable it

 

[KingKrool]

Actually, IPv6 might provably be enough.

Look at Jeff Bonwick's calculations for ZFS - then modify them to be IP addresses instead of storage bytes (actually I think there are already some such calcs, but I don't know where)

 

[Sanav3]

didnt kno abt 2k

in xp i m pretty sure its already installed, we just have to enable it

How to install and uninstall IPv6

Article ID : 555577
Last Review : March 20, 2006
Revision : 1.0
SUMMARY
"Internet Protocol Version 6" is the full form of IPv6 which is the "next generation" protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version Internet Protocol,i.e. IP Version 4 ("IPv4"). Windows XP includes IPv6 implementation, but it has to be installed.

Tips
How to install and uninstall IPv6
To install IPv6:-
Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type: ipv6 install and press the Enter Key.
To uninstall IPv6:-
Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type:netsh int ipv6 uninstall and press the Enter Key.
Restart the computer.
Source --> How to install and uninstall IPv6

You dont need a different installable .. but it needs to be installed using netsh

 

[Deepak]

^^ Technically IPv6 is already installed, by running "ipv6 install" you are just enabling it

PS : by installed i mean not putting the XP drive in the CD and literally installing it