Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Third Edition

IPv6

The IP addressing system described in Hour 4, “The Internet Layer,” has served the Internet community for nearly a generation, and those who developed it are justifiably proud of how far TCP/IP has come. But for the past few years they've been worrying about one thing: The world is running out of addresses. This looming address crisis might seem surprising, because the 32-bit address field of the current IP format can provide over three billion possible host IDs. But it is important to remember how many of these three billion addresses are actually unusable. A network ID is typically assigned to an organization, and that organization controls the host IDs associated with its own network.

Recall from Hour 4 that IP addresses fall within address ...