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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux by VoodooJuJu on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:59AM (#37765294)
IPv6 is an insult.
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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux by keep_reading on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:30AM (#37765746)
- we never got the integrated IPSEC

- enough addresses for everyone on the planet, but we can't freely give out permanent static allocations to everyone because it would explode the routing tables

- so we never got our permanent roaming addresses we were promised

- NAT66 exists

- IPv6 was (still is?) a moving target for implementors

It's worse than an insult

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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:00PM (#37769963)
"It only has some of the benefits over IPv4" is not worse than an insult.

Best practices changing applies to IPv4 too.

NAT exists but you don't need it and even if you do use it you don't have to track connections.

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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux by hot_gril on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:35PM (#37770447)
IPv6 to me is an example of "not letting a good crisis go to waste." The real problem was running out of addresses, but the solution got lots of less necessary changes bundled into it, rather than just adding more address space.
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