Re:IP addresses and routing
by woah on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:35PM
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This is not true. They changed almost every detail in ipv6, from the address notation, to the fragmentation, to the peer discovery. Some of these may have been improvements, some not. But at the end of the day, all that anyone ever needed was a few more octets on the address. IPv4 with a couple extra dots would have been adopted 15 years ago.
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> But at the end of the day, all that anyone ever needed was a few more octets on the address. IPv4 with a couple extra dots would have been adopted 15 years ago.
You are completely ignoring routing issues. IPv6 is designed from the ground up for efficient route aggregation, and more importantly the processes ARIN and RIR use for allocation are based around this. There is no way IPv4 routing would scale to what IPv6 is going to be in 10 years if you "just added" some octets. What are you going to do, force everyone to re-number?
Yeah, remember when IPSec was mandatory? And the two different schemes (never standardized I guess) that would have let you have a "home" IP address and a "network"/real IP address, so if you were streaming a video the source would send to one IP even as you hopped networks? Good times.