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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by bluGill on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @08:42PM (#39985805)
so we did what you proposed. Ipv6 is simpler than ipv4. You can handwave details different but they all suffe, from the same problem of rollout.
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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @11:13PM (#39986620)
You have a unique definition of simple.
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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by bluGill on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:53AM (#39990757)
I have actually seen the protocol specs for both IPv4 and IPv6. IPv6 is simpler than IPv4 - but you probably never looked into how to do source address routing which you are required to support when you implement IPv4 even though nobody uses it (If you try I'm sure that the large backbone providers will block it)
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