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Could we have an IPv6 one? It’s 2026.
no.
But it’s not possible to do this joke since ipv6 does not have subnets.
What? There’s no way that’s right, right?
Well, sort of.
You can divide up IPv6 addresses as you like.
But … there’s so much space there that they are typically just divided in half.
64 bits of subnet (aka routing prefix) + 64 bits of host address.
They play a lot of games with the first 12 or so bits to say what kind of network it is, and the rules change a lot for multicast and other address types.
So its not a subnet as you know it, but it still is.
/24/128um … that’s wrong.
why?
Two reasons.
You were responding to someone who offered a /24 as a subnet.
There are 32 bits in an IPv4 address. /24 is 255.255.255.0.
So they were wrong too in reference to IPv6, but at least they were making sense.
You responded with /128, which is the full range of the IPv6 address.
That would be like the prior poster saying /32 aka 255.255.255.255.
There’s no usable range there.And, see my post above for the rest of the breakdown, but you were looking for /64.
But the mask is a firewall to prevent viruses from leaving or reaching you, so a firewall on ::1/128
I’ll get your coat
Momma I’m comin’ 127.0.0.1
God: I’m 0.0.0.0/::1
Home is ~, localhost is wherever you are.
That’s way too broad, for protection it should probably be 255.255.255.254
at least N95!
255.255.255.252 for your significant other
I think you both have an off-by-one error there. It‘s /32 for one device and /31 for 2 devices (selected by the last bit). It feels wrong to have /32 be the entire adress space btw.
I don’t need a gateway or broadcast to talk to my SO just .0 for me and .1 for them
Yeah but then you don’t have ARP and you gotta set in the MAC manually and that just seems like a hassle.
how is this a Linux meme?
He runs allpine btw
its hardly even a meme.
A subnet mask mask!
Just use IPV6
Network prefix length/CIDR notation: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
/64
