How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?

Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion? by ReverseCold on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:35AM (#16384256)

I had IPv6 setup at one point, but a lot of things using it are broken. Some sites/services/software repos will just refuse to connect- and after a few minutes of debugging I realize it's probably v6. Turning off IPv6 usually fixes the problem.

I'd like to use IPv6, but since turning it on by default breaks a lot of things- I'm leaving it off for now.

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Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion? by chrisper on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:44AM (#16384342)

When I set up IPv6 I learned that you have to let some things through your firewall, like ICMP, because the IPv6 protocol relies on it. When I blocked everything like I did with ipv4, it eventually stopped working.

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Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion? by cesarb on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:54AM (#16384439)

If you block everything with IPv4, things stop working too: you have to allow at least some ICMP (for "packet too big" path MTU discovery), otherwise you will have hard-to-diagnose issues.

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Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion? by jsjohnst on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:54AM (#16385524)

Less an issue with IPv4 in a consumer sense because the device blocking the ICMP is also commonly doing NAT too.

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