So, as I mentioned before.
The IPv4 address is a 32 bit number.
Which allows us to address maximum of two to the power of 32 devices.
In theory.
That means there are fewer than 4.3 billion addresses available.
See where I'm going with this?
It's a problem because there are many, many, many, many, many, many more than 4 billion Internet
connected devices in the world.
Desktop and laptop computers, smart phones, smart TVs, smart cars, even smart fridges, smart ovens.
You know, the Internet of Things.
It's the future, baby.
This has led to a shortage of IPv4 addresses.
So my friend and fellow genius, what is the solution to the problem?
I think the long term solution is to switch to Internet protocol Version six.
IPV six.
IPV six has trillions of trillions of addresses.
Enough to give every computer in the world a unique IP address.
We'll get into that detail very soon.
But the most important effort to migrate the IPv4 shortage is using network address translation Nat,
which allows a private network to use one public IP address and that permits lots of private addresses
in the private network.
But wait a second.
Wait, wait, wait.
Private network.
Nat?
What the heck are you talking about?
Now, I thought you wanted to go to IPv6.
Let me explain.