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What Can You Get from an IP Address and Why is it Important?

Galido

Here’s how to tell apart the following IP addresses: IPv4 and IPv6. When it comes to IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, these are mainly used to find your location and identify who you are. However, using it an IPv6 address has 128 bits makes the number of individual addresses that can be created exponentially larger.

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IPv6 Primer for Deployments

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the OpenStack Summit Sydney session titled “IPv6 Primer for Deployments”, led by Trent Lloyd from Canonical. IPv6 is a topic with which I know I need to get more familiar, so attending this session seemed like a reasonable approach. IPv6 also has some special addresses. x 10 to the 38th power).

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