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Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 by mkj on Sunday January 01, 2023 @07:32AM (#34205808)
They don't need to buy as expensive cgnat hardware if a greater proportion of traffic is ipv6. That's the rationale given by an up-and-coming ISP in Australia.
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Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 by ignoramous on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:01AM (#34206292)
Still need CGNAT for Dual Stack - Lite. Or, a NAT for 464Xlat.
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Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 by throw0101c on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:40AM (#34206574)
Video is by far the largest bandwidth hog that most people use, and both Google/Youtube and Netflix support IPv6 for streaming last time I checked. The more traffic that supports IPv6, both from the client- and server-end of things, the less horsepower that the CG-NAT boxes need for network processing (and for things like logging of connection mappings for mandated law enforcement purposes).

There is certainly an upfront cost of getting IPv6 going for a 'legacy' ISP, but once the infrastructure is there it can reduce the ongoing costs of CG-NAT (because IPv6 will just be part of the fixed costs that you need to be an ISP).

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Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 by killingtime74 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:32AM (#34207715)
Which ISP? (am curious as an Australian)
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Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 by mkj on Sunday January 01, 2023 @07:30PM (#34212778)
Aussie Broadband
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