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Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by tinus_hn on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:16PM (#29280423)
It’s probably easier to add some more addresses than to switch to IPv6 but I hope you agree that switching to IPv6 ultimately is inevitable. And then you are comparing the optional costs of adding that small number of addresses against the switch costs that you are going to incur anyway.
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Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by yardstick on Saturday November 20, 2021 @01:24AM (#29286019)
IPv6 has been around since the mid-late 90s, it’s an incredibly slow migration as a lot of things were just not thought through. Yes the switch will eventually happen, but we’re already talking decades, which is a lot of time to unlock a few IPv4 subnets while we wait.
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Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project by tinus_hn on Saturday November 20, 2021 @09:02AM (#29288126)
The alternative take is that it’s an incredibly slow migration because we keep unlocking a few IPv4 subnets so we can wait a little longer.
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