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brador 2 hours ago

2026. Literally no reason to be using this outdated limited addressing.

New regex: IP(any collection of numbers and dots).

Now we have infinite IP address possibilities and no one controls the space.

Done.

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codingdave an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Do you think routers perform their work using the human-readable addresses?

If so, that is incorrect. They use the binary values. The actual difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is that IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, not 32. So you can devise whatever human-readable abstraction you like, it won't change how networking actually operates.

	▲	brador 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And there’s no reason we should be limited to 128. It’s all just so dated and stagnant. Chips can be made that dwarf that limitation, instead we’re stuck with this decade old nonsense to “work around” again. Flip flopping between “the code needs it” and “the chips need it”.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What does a packet header look like?