IP Manipulation

Summary
IP Manipulation is a term used to describe the ability to manipulate IP addresses, IP ranges or anything related with IP addresses itself.

The ability to manipulate IPs into how the person in question needs it is not only very overpowered as almost everything in our universe and even higher dimensions is based on IP addresses but it's also an absolutely dangerous thing to do, due to the fact that any intentional or unintentional misconfiguration may lead to a total failure of whole universes or even to a complete breakdown of rules defined by the law of existence/nature.

Characters who have this ability are automatically considered to be at least Multiverse level or in other words at least 2-B. Very often, however, not always these characters also have at least the ability Hacking (Type 3 or higher).

Types
There are currently 3 Types of IP addresses in all of the different universes and dimensions.


 * IPv4 - is the current standard in most 3-dimensional spaces. There are 232 or 4.294.967.296 IPv4 addresses whereas 592.708.864 of them are reserved for various things (like localhost, Class D, Class E and Broadcasts). This might sound like a huge number of addresses, however no more IPv4 addresses are available as of 2021. An example of an IPv4 address would be this one: 45.142.176.14. Hacking (Type 2 or higher) is required in order to be able to manipulate IPv4 addresses.


 * IPv6 - is the new standard in most 3-dimensional spaces and is the current standard in higher-dimensional spaces. There are 2128 or 340.282.366.920.938.463.463.374.607.431.768.211.456 IPv6 addresses. IPv6 also features better security over IPv4 and many other positive things (like the elimination of NAT, better Multicast Routing or a simpler header format). An example of an IPv6 address would be this one: 2001:acad:db8::1. Hacking (Type 3 or higher) is required in order to be able to manipulate IPv6 addresses.


 * IPv8 - is the newest standard in all spaces and dimensions. There are 21024 or 179.769.313.486.231.590.772.930.519.078.902.473.361.797.697.894.230.657.273.430.081.157.732.675.805.500.963.132.708.477.322.407.536.021.120.113.879.871.393.357.658.789.768.814.416.622.492.847.430.639.474.124.377.767.893.424.865.485.276.302.219.601.246.094.119.453.082.952.085.005.768.838.150.682.342.462.881.473.913.110.540.827.237.163.350.510.684.586.298.239.947.245.938.479.716.304.835.356.329.624.224.137.216 (around 179 Uncentillion) IPv8 addresses. IPv8 features unbelievably strong security which is to this day (2021) unbreakable even with the help of several quantum computers. An example of an IPv8 address would be this one: 69kt:&s$3:p#e1:o0+z:::7. Hacking (Type 4) is required in order to be able to manipulate IPv8 addresses.

Possible Uses

 * Time-Travel
 * Time-Alter
 * Time-Stop
 * Existence Erasure
 * (Higher)-Dimensional Corruption
 * (Higher)-Dimensional Manipulation
 * (Higher)-Dimensional Destruction
 * Reality Warping
 * Creation
 * Summoning
 * Void Manipulation
 * Power Nullification
 * Hacking
 * Etc.