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Re:IP addresses and routing by kiallmacinnes on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:46AM (#17625240)
Right, but how does this differ from IPv4? Every time I restart my cable modem, I get a new IP from a /18 or so of IPv4 space.

IP blocking is far from ideal, in both versions of IP.. IPv6 makes this no better, or worse.

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Re:IP addresses and routing by ryanlol on Friday July 27, 2018 @10:56AM (#17626386)
You get a single IP, that doesn’t scale well at all.
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