What is IPv6?

[uow!S]

IPv6 is Internet Potocol version 6,right?
How it works?
What's different from IP(now we are using)?

[Midknyte]

current IP is v4. it is only 32-bit.

ipv6 is 128bit. an ipv6 address looks like this:

nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn

where n is in hexidecimal.

[Vernon Frazee]

http://www.ipv6.org/

[omega31]

http://www.ipv6forum.com/

[c0r3file]

In short, IPv6 allows for several things:

1) more available IP addresses because of extra octet

2) better handling of packet traffic through network bottlenecks by pre-packaging packets to the correct size before transmission

3) allows for packet prioritization, i.e. real-time video is sent with highest priority, email would be very low priority.

At least I think that's the run down, someone correct me if I misspoke myself... =)

c0r3file

[uow!S]

thanks guys~