2006-06-23 00:12:22 · 5 answers · asked by noorulla_dalvi 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
There are many differences, but the one that stands out most of all is the amount of address space. IPv4 uses 32 bits and IPv6 uses 128 bits. That's enough addresses in IPv6 that every person on the planet can have their own home network the size of the current Internet. No kidding. Sounds pretty far fetched, but we might need that much address space one day when our household appliances have IP addresses and the fridge sends us email when we need milk.
2006-06-23 09:34:43 · answer #1 · answered by networkmaster 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is IP?
Internet Protocol (IP) is the central, unifying protocol in the TCP/IP suite. It provides the basic delivery mechanism for packets of data sent between all systems on an internet, regardless of whether the systems are in the same room or on opposite sides of the world. All other protocols in the TCP/IP suite depend on IP to carry out the fundamental function of moving packets across the internet.
In terms of the OSI networking model, IP provides a Connectionless Unacknowledged Network Service, which means that its attitude to data packets can be characterised as "send and forget". IP does not guarantee to actually deliver the data to the destination, nor does it guarantee that the data will be delivered undamaged, nor does it guarantee that data packets will be delivered to the destination in the order in which they were sent by the source, nor does it guarantee that only one copy of the data will be delivered to the destination.
IPv4 is an early version of the Internet protocol that assigns IP addresses of 32 bits to the multitudes of websites out there in cyberspace.
But the day when IPv4 reaches its IP address limit is coming. IPv6 assigns IP addresses of 128 rather than 32 bits.
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2006-06-23 07:36:52 · answer #2 · answered by IT-guru 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ip means version 4. It is 32bytes address.
And ip version 6 having 48bytes of address.
2006-06-30 07:01:04 · answer #3 · answered by Engineer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Visit this link to get complete information for IP (IPv4 and IPv6).
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/itpriorities/networking/wan/0,39020540,2133533,00.htm
2006-06-23 08:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by Abhishek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot of bits....
32 bits - TCP/IP v4
128 bits - TCP/IP v6
2006-06-30 11:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋