Ipv6 yaiva mugumisiro kwemakore akawanda kuedza uye nhaurirano panguva iyo siyana protocol yokutevedzera vakanga aronga, akadai TP / IX (RFC 1475), PIP (RFC 1621) uye TUBA (TCP uye UDP pamwe Bigger Addresses, RFC 1347). musiyano Its kupfuura akatanhamara kubva shanduro 4 iri kukura kero. Nepo IPv4 anoshandisa 32 matomu kuti addressing, yielding c. 4.3 bhiriyoni (4.3 × 109) kero, IPv6 anoshandisa 128 matomu kero kupa c. 340 undecillion, kana 3.4 × 1038 kero. Kunyange zvazvo kuitwa IPv6 kwave kunonoka, sezvo June 2008, hurumende United States zvose hurongwa vakaratidza rutsigiro zvinokosha kwezvivako nokuda IPv6.
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