IPv4 has supposedly been on its way out for decades now, with IPv6 poised to take over the ... an IPv4 packet used to store the address to 4 bytes, or 32 bits, limiting the size of an IP address ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...