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I know how IP addresses work and I also understand the reasons why there is a natural limit to those addresses, as well as the solution to that problem. Officially, we have ran out of IPv4 addresses ...

I came to know recently IPv4 public IP address pools are going to be exhausted soon. If IPv6 addresses are fully in use, all device vendors like Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto have to redesign their ...

By convention, each device on the LAN under IPv6 gets a /64 subnet, right? That's an obscene number of addresses per device! Why not make the addresses shorter, say, 72 bits, then each device would ...

I have two private IP addresses, want to make them NAT to 203.0.113.0/2 public IP address. WAY 1 : Static NAT (2 ip addresses NATted to one by manually) WAY 2 : PAT (Router gives port number ...

1) Subnetting and Supernetting can both be done for private and public IP addresses? 2) Classful addresses weren't successful because of IP wasting, and that is why the 'network mask' was invented, ...

I am working in a lab and have configured a series of /125 subnets between routers. Lets ignore the best practice for this discussion of using /64 for everything. When I assign fd00:f9a8:ffff::257 to ...

I just read that specific ranges of IPs have been set aside to be used to private ip addressing. But if we already distinguish between public and private IPs why do we need to reserve space? Why cant ...

I am trying to understand the distinction between public and private IP addresses in IPv4 networking. The picture I've been told has some problems with it, so I would like to present it here and ask ...

I just recently learned about IPv4 and the different classes. Let's say I have a following arbritary IP address : 12.123.123.45 Now, the first octet is below 127 and thus, it tells me that this IPv4 ...

I have googled it, but the articles dealing with the question seem to be either several years old or very general. What is the current status of ipv6 adoption in terms of usefulness? Specifically, ...

Let's say I work for a big enterprise organization. When looking at my IP address, I notice that it is not a private IP address but is instead a public IP address. What are the benefits of ...

I am new to networking, so I apologize is this question is naive. I understand that 2^32 = ~4 billion. However, if you add in subnet masks, won't this number increase? For example, let's say you have ...

As far as I know there are more or less 4 billions of possible IPv4 addresses. I am having concerns about limitations. If each home router provided by ISP is granted a public IP address (local traffic ...