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A comment on IPv6 versus NAT (and a proposal to bring back SOCKS).

Re:IPv6 versus NAT (and a proposal to bring back SOCKS) by api on Monday April 11, 2011 @10:40AM (#2432698)
"I don't wanna use IPv6! I'll have to change things! Waaaah!"

Just shut up. Do it. Do the transition. Yes, it will be hard. Yes, it might break shit. No, IPv6 is not perfect. But do this transition once and we have enough address space to make it to the galactic civilization level. 2^128 addresses is big. It's a one-time thing.

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Re:IPv6 versus NAT (and a proposal to bring back SOCKS) by alyrik on Monday April 11, 2011 @10:57AM (#2432759)
I've run IPv6, to try it out... I just didn't bother setting it up again next time I replaced things, as it gained me nothing, so I didn't want to repeat the effort.

So it's in my best interests to wait until I have to.

Which means I'll continue to use IPv4.

Which means the sites I want to connect to aren't motivated to turn off IPv4.

Ad infinitum.

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