2.introduction to Networking
IPv4 and IPv6 IPv4 uses 32-bits for addresses;there are only 4.3 bilion unique addresses available. IPv6 uses 128-bits for addresses; this allows for 3.4 * 10^38 unique addresses. One reason IPv4 has not disappeared is there are widely-used ways t o effectively make many more addresses available by methods such as NAT(Network Address Translation). NAT enables sharing one IP address among many locally connected computers, each of which has a unique address only seen on the local network....