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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by justsomehnguy on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:37PM (#33898245)
> Amazon currently has 2880 ipv4 allocations and 946 ipv6 allocations... not much gained I guess?

Whole IPv4 address space is 4294967296 addresses.

A single /48 is 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176.

And 2804:800::/32 is 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by ipython on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:10PM (#33899570)
Gp comment refers to the number of routing table entries, not total number of addressable ips.

Ideally the number of ipv6 allocations should be close to 1 rather than close to 1000.

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