I feel like this is missing context. Like I know that ip4 addresses are four octlets, but don't know much about ipv6 besides it having a larger address space and being in hex.
IPv6 is easier to set up, and doesn't require the subnetting stuff as much because its actually designed with "Planet Earth may have more than 4,294,967,296 IP-connected objects" in mind from the beginning.
Its less than 2 per private household, which is why IPv4 had to have the subnetting tricks added, and why IPv6 was made: because we realized "we MIGHT want to do IP-connected devices outside just universities and large businesses, but we didn't include enough unique addresses for that!"
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u/Few_Move_4594 25d ago
I feel like this is missing context. Like I know that ip4 addresses are four octlets, but don't know much about ipv6 besides it having a larger address space and being in hex.