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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 by Dagger2 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:40PM (#39107658)
Your scheme already exists, although instead of using the first octet of the IP address it uses a 41 in the protocol field, so it doesn't need to eat an entire /8. Routers can see the 41 as a flag and then read the v6 address from the beginning of the packet payload.

You haven't managed to suggest anything that v6 doesn't already do, or anything that would solve any of the problems v6 has when doing it. I'm not sure you even noticed the problems, yet you think you can throw stones at the v6 people, who not only noticed the problems but had to solve them too?

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 by mike_d on Thursday January 25, 2024 @09:05PM (#39138122)
Throw that packet at a non-v6 router and let me know what happens. v6 could have been an overlay extension to solve the address space issue without the migration complexities.

We are now 26 years in and v6 has only gotten serious adoption because mobile carriers came along too late in the game to get enough number resources.

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