Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design
by mort96 on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:54AM
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The larger address space is only an advantage if we don't need a v4 address. The situation "I need a v4 address" is not worse than the situation "I need a v4 address and a v6 address".
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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design
by patmorgan23 on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:38PM
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Not exactly. There's some pretty snazzy interoperability tech out their. (I.e. 4-6-4 XLAT) that let's clients get v4 addresses when they need them, which means if there's a big chuck on devices on both ends that support v6 you don't need as many v4 address.
This kinda a problem for motivating people to move to v6 because as implementations of v6 grow there's going to be less and less pressure on the v4 address space.