{"id":227,"date":"2009-02-22T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.chrisgrundemann.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2018-01-27T18:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T23:40:39","slug":"how-much-ipv6-is-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2009\/how-much-ipv6-is-there\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much IPv6 is There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The questions I am most often asked when I discuss <a title=\"IPv6 - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPv6\">IPv6<\/a> with someone for the first time are &#8220;<a title=\"What is IPv6\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.chapters.isoc.org\/tiki-index.php?page=IPv6+FAQ#A1_What_is_IPv6_\">what is IPv6<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a title=\"Why IPv6\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.chapters.isoc.org\/tiki-index.php?page=IPv6+FAQ#A2_Why_is_there_a_need_for_IPv6_\">why do we need a new version of IP<\/a>?&#8221;\u00a0 Once it is understood that we simply <a title=\"IPv4 address exhaustion - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPv4_address_exhaustion\">do not have enough IPv4 addresses<\/a> available for the <a title=\"Internet - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\">Internet<\/a> to continue to grow much beyond its <a title=\"IPv4 Address Report - Current Status\" href=\"http:\/\/www.potaroo.net\/tools\/ipv4\/index.html#r4\">current state<\/a>, the next question is the one that I explore here:\u00a0 <strong>How much IPv6 is there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most obvious answer is the one most commonly given; that IPv6 addresses are 128 <a title=\"Bit - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bit\">bits<\/a> long and since each bit is a <a title=\"Binary - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Binary_numeral_system\">binary<\/a> digit, we get a theoretical total of 2^128 individual IPv6 addresses,\u00a0 which is 3.40282367 \u00d7 10^38 or <strong>340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now we have this giant number but no real concept of what it means.\u00a0 Some have explained it as 5&#215;10^28 (roughly 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) addresses <em>per human on Earth<\/em> or as 2^96 (7.92281625 \u00d7 10^28) <em>times <\/em>more unique addresses than are available with IPv4.\u00a0 But this is not a fair comparison because the <a title=\"IETF IPv6 Working Group Status Page\" href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/wg\/ipv6\/\">IPv6 standards<\/a> are designed in such a way that individual IPv6 addresses are almost meaningless, far less meaningful than individual IPv4 addresses currently are.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, this is due to the fact that almost all IPv4 deployments leverage <a title=\"Network Address Translation - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network_address_translation\">NAT<\/a> or at least follow fairly strict <a title=\"ARIN NRPM - 4.2.4.1. Utilization percentage (80%)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arin.net\/policy\/nrpm.html#four241\">efficient<\/a> <a title=\"APNIC IPv4 Policies - 9.5 Prior allocations to be used first\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apnic.net\/policy\/add-manage-policy.html#9.5\">utilization<\/a> <a title=\"AfriNIC Policy - IPv4 Address Allocation Policies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afrinic.net\/docs\/policies\/afpol-v4200407-000.htm#8\">requirements<\/a> and IPv6 deployments do not.\u00a0 Network Address Translation (NAT) allows a single IPv4 address to represent multiple <a title=\"Network Host - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Host_(network)\">hosts<\/a> and\/or <a title=\"Network Node - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network_node\">nodes<\/a> on the Internet at the same time.\u00a0 Efficient utilization policies at the various <a title=\"IANA, Number Resources\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iana.org\/numbers\/\">RIRs<\/a> require that individual IPv4 addresses assigned to an organization be utilized beyond a set threshold (80% at this time) before more IPv4 addresses will be allocated or assigned to that organization.\u00a0 Combined, this means that almost every single allocated IPv4 address represents (at least) one Internet host.\u00a0 IPv6 on the other hand does not use NAT (this is a very good thing overall but means that the many to one leveraging which is possible with IPv4 addresses is not possible with IPv6 addresses) and is subject to much looser <a title=\"ARIN NRPM - 6.2.7. (IPv6) Utilization\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arin.net\/policy\/nrpm.html#six27\">efficient<\/a> <a title=\"LACNIC Policy Manual - 4. IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lacnic.net\/en\/politicas\/manual5.html\">utilization<\/a> <a title=\"RIPE - IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy - 2.7. Utilisation \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ripe.net\/ripe\/docs\/ripe-421.html#utilisation\">policies<\/a> in the various regions.\u00a0\u00a0 All together, this just means that one to one comparisons between the numbers of individual addresses under each protocol are not an apples to apples contrast.<\/p>\n<p>So what is an apples to apples comparison?\u00a0 There may not be one perfect answer to that but there are several possibilities which we can explore.\u00a0 They all include looking at common <a title=\"Subnetwork - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subnetwork\">subnetting<\/a> practices to find a more accurate basis for such comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>To keep the numbers a tad smaller, let&#8217;s start by focusing on the current <a title=\"ARIN NRPM - 6.5. Policies for allocations and assignments\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arin.net\/policy\/nrpm.html#six51\">IPv6 minimum allocation<\/a> (for the sake of simplicity I will use the ARIN policies as my reference going forward, most of the other registries have quite similar policy in place in most cases) which is a \/32 (ipv6\/32).\u00a0\u00a0 There are a total of 4,294,967,296 (2^32)\u00a0or roughly 4.2 billion ipv6\/32s (which is also the number of individual IPv4 addresses).\u00a0 The current <a title=\"ARIN NRPM - 4.2.1.5. Minimum allocation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arin.net\/policy\/nrpm.html#four215\">IPv4 minimum allocation<\/a> is\u00a0 a \/20 (ipv4\/20) of which there are 1,048,576 (2^20).\u00a0 This means that there are only 4,096 <em>times<\/em> more ipv6\/32s than ipv4\/20s.\u00a0 I say <em>only<\/em>, because 4,096 times more is a much, much different number than the 7.9 \u00d7 10^28 times more individual IPv6 IPs there are.\u00a0 There are two problems with this approach however, the first is that the IPv4 minimum allocation has changed over time and at this point seems a little bit arbitrary.\u00a0 The second is that the number of addresses within these allocations is so vastly different.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s look at the addresses (or more accurately the subnetworks) within the IPv6 minimum allocation.<\/p>\n<p>In a single ipv6\/32 there are 65,536 possible ipv6\/48s.\u00a0 Since an ipv6\/48 is the <a title=\"ARIN NRPM - 6.5.4.1. Assignment address space size\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arin.net\/policy\/nrpm.html#six541\">&#8220;normal maximum&#8221; assignment<\/a> we may rationally compare this to an ipv4\/24 (I draw this comparison mostly because in the ISP networks I have worked on we typically made our first aggregation at the ipv4\/24 line and it appears that the ipv6\/48 will similarly be the city or PoP level aggregate of choice).\u00a0 To have 65,536 ipv4\/24s at your disposal you would need an ipv4\/8 assigned to your organization.\u00a0 There are only 256 unique ipv4\/8s\u00a0possible and (as mentioned above) there are about 4.2 billion ipv6\/32s, making the difference a factor of 16,777,216.\u00a0 Quite a bit larger than the 4,096 we get comparing minimum allocations but still a very far cry from 7.9 \u00d7 10^28.\u00a0 We face a familiar problem again here though, an ipv6\/48 contains roughly a <a title=\"Names of Large Numbers - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Names_of_large_numbers\">septillion<\/a> (1.209 x 10^24) individual addresses while an ipv4\/24 holds only 256.\u00a0 Before moving on I would like to point out that while an IPv4 allocation that large may sound ridiculous; ipv4\/8s were handed out in the early days of IPv4 much more freely than you might assume given today\u2019s problem with scarcity.\u00a0 In fact, 41 out of the 256 total ipv4\/8s are <a title=\"IANA - IPv4 Global Unicast Address Assignments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iana.org\/assignments\/ipv4-address-space\/\">designated<\/a> in full to a non-RIR organization; that adds up to 16% of all IPv4 addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving minimum allocations behind, let&#8217;s get down to the smallest subnetworks.\u00a0 An ipv4\/30 contains just two usable IP addresses but (because of NAT) can represent an entire customer <a title=\"Local Area Network - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_area_network\">LAN<\/a> on an ISP network.\u00a0 The IPv6 prefix which represents a single LAN segment is an ipv6\/64.\u00a0 There are a possible total 1,073,741,824 (roughly 1 billion) ipv4\/30s and 1.84467441 \u00d7 10^19 ipv6\/64s.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about 17 billion (17,179,869,200 to be more exact) times more IPv6 than IPv4 when measured this way.<\/p>\n<p>Finally there are the RIR utilization definitions.\u00a0 With IPv4, utilization requirements are based on individual IPv4 addresses (ipv4\/32s), while IPv6 utilization requirements most commonly refer to \/56 networks (ipv6\/56).\u00a0 The maximum possible number of ipv4\/32s is 4,294,967,296 or roughly 4.2 billion.\u00a0 The maximum possible number of unique ipv6\/56s is 7.2057594 \u00d7 10^16.\u00a0 Some simple division here tells me that using this method of comparison, the size difference between IPv6 and IPv4 stands at a factor of 16,777,216; the same number we came up with when comparing ipv4\/24s to ipv6\/48s.<\/p>\n<p>So, while there may be well over an octillion times more individual IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses; in terms of actually usability, IPv6 is <em>only<\/em> somewhere in the range of 16 million to 17 billion times larger than IPv4.\u00a0 Much larger, yes; infinite, no.<\/p>\n<p><em> UPDATE:\u00a0 Check out my related post on <a title=\"IP vs MAC -- don't panic\" href=\"http:\/\/weblog.chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2009\/address_space-mac_v_ip\/\">IP vs MAC address space<\/a> if this sort of thing interests you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there may be over an octillion times more individual IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses; in terms of actually usability, IPv6 is somewhere in the range of 16 million to 17 billion times larger than IPv4.  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