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Python Web Development with Sanic
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The need for IPv6 is high on the internet today, with the creation of IoT devices that increase the rate of exhaustion of the public IPv4 address space. Nowadays, there are many data centers and cloud computing providers that offer virtual machines to their tenants. In addition, there are many more devices on the internet than there were over a decade ago. All of this contributes to the quick exhaustion of public IPv4 addresses from the various RIRs around the world.
Unlike the IPv4 address space, which has approximately 4.3 billion public addresses, IPv6 contains 128 bits that provide approximately 340 undecillion (3.4 x 1038) IPv6 addresses in the world. Each IPv6 address has 8 hextets, each of which is made up of 16 bits. This implies 8 hextets x 16 bits per hextet = 128-bit address.
Additionally, IPv6 is written using hexadecimal values and not decimals, as with IPv4. Hexadecimal values have the following range:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Each...