The scarcity of IP addresses necessitates the requirement for more IP addresses than are available in the presently used IPv4 protocol. The IPv4 protocol specifies that the IP address length is 32 bits, resulting in a total of 2^32-1 addresses. However, these addresses have been exhausted mainly due to the limitations of the way IP addresses are used, which restricts the number of available addresses to the network. The development of the IPv6 protocol is presently underway, which will provid...