shabeena

 Profile Answers by shabeena 

• Jun 27th, 2008

 

ipv6:
  Means Internet Protocol Version6. It is one kind of ip version.

Sorry!!,   i don't  know abt the how many octates it s having?

addagalla

 Profile Answers by addagalla 

• Aug 5th, 2008

 

ipv6 means Internet Protocol Version 6. It is the latest version. It has 16 octates.
It is in Hexadecimal format.

Thomas Whitten

 Profile Answers by Thomas Whitten 

• Jun 27th, 2011

 

IPv6 is basically the response to the fact that the world is/was running out of public ip addresses.  The best example of stupidity leading to the problem is universities handing out public IP address to students and facility on their networks.  A corporation would be insane to hand out public ip addresses to staff members.

IPv6 default subnet is 255.255.255.255.0

Ipv6 has 5 octets - 255.255.255.255.0
Ipv4 has 4 octets - 255.255.255.0

Personal Opinion

Ipv6 is not failure as such.  I'm sure it's implemented somewhere, but I've not seen it.  The solution to running out of IP addresses is better management of IPv4 addresses.  Hardware/IOS manufactures often use 10.0.0.0 (called a '10' network) in examples of how to configure their devices.  The students then return to their networks and implement their text book learning's in their networks.  BIG MISTAKE!  Then these students wonder why things are all messed up on their networks.  You should Class 'C' addressing on your private, smaller networks.  It'll work out much better for you.