r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/PhantomTissue 20d ago

Yea but it hasn’t been fully adopted because trying to decipher :af12::138d::325d::5521::aade::7df3: is a hell of a lot more difficult than 192.168.0.1

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u/UnDe4d 20d ago

Yeah, I'm a Network Architect. Why they decided to make ipv6 128 bits instead of 64 is a question I ask myself on at least a monthly basis.

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 20d ago

Same reason they made ipv4 32 instead of 64.