The IPv4 Cleanup Project

Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by whoknowswhat11 on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:14PM (#29279576)

Finally someone who get's it.

First - you can't actually get static IPv6 despite the claims that there is plenty of it as a home user in the US. This static IPv6 for everyone is basically a total lie.

It's super simple with IPv4 to setup an internal network with known hosts / DHCP lease reservations if needed / dns etc, and have all that stay totally unchanged as the WAN link bounces around. If you are supporting a bunch of users (who yes, will configure a printer using the printers IP etc) then this makes like simple. You can do this at home too easily etc.

There is a weird myopia in the IPv6 world about use cases for IP. It's like they just ignored what people need and want, and went a totally different direction.

We need IPv4+ with another octet and be done with this :)

I'm serious, anyone interested in trying to push this. Keep everything the same except with another octet at the front?

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Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by BenjiWiebe on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:34PM (#29281277)

For your local DNS names, etc, you could use the link-local IPv6 address.

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Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by whoknowswhat11 on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:43PM (#29281383)

For some reason these change endlessly on my network.

RFC4941 or similar privacy extension stuff might explain this.

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Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by p1mrx on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:46PM (#29282976)

Let's keep the IPv4 header, but start counting packets from byte -2 instead of 0.

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