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IPv6 has a vastly larger address space than IPv4.
IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, compared with 32-bit addresses in IPv4. That expands the theoretical address space to approximately 3.4 times ten to the power of 38 possible bit patterns.
IPv6 has a vastly larger address space than IPv4.
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