The Internet is FULL - Numberphile
What do we do now that all 4294967296 IP addresses have been given out? James Clewett discusses. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphi...
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JAMES CLEWETT: I mean, the important point is that the internet is full. That's the tabloid headline. The internet is full. There's now so many machines attached to the internet that there is no way that they can all have their own unique address. Not the way we're currently addressing them. All right. Well, the number is 4,294,967,296. A packet is what happens to the information that you're trying to send on the internet. Your computer breaks it down into bit-sized chunks, and it sends it off bundled up. It's like putting it in an envelope. And on the front of the envelope, it writes this unique number, which is the IP address, and sends it off across the internet. And then every router, every switch that it encounters as ...
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JAMES CLEWETT: I mean, the important point is that the internet is full. That's the tabloid headline. The internet is full. There's now so many machines attached to the internet that there is no way that they can all have their own unique address. Not the way we're currently addressing them. All right. Well, the number is 4,294,967,296. A packet is what happens to the information that you're trying to send on the internet. Your computer breaks it down into bit-sized chunks, and it sends it off bundled up. It's like putting it in an envelope. And on the front of the envelope, it writes this unique number, which is the IP address, and sends it off across the internet. And then every router, every switch that it encounters as ...
