Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023
by ignoramous on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:01AM
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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
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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).