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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by lazide on Thursday April 16, 2026 @09:34AM (#47792742)
There are still ascii dialup bulletin boards out there. and operating model T’s. IPv4 will be around for longer than you or I.
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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by lxgr on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:40AM (#47793701)
There are also still Telex and X.25 networks around there, not to forget the whole public telephone network!

But at some point, getting a native connection to all of these started becoming increasingly rare, and now these are largely emulated/tunneled on top of IP. The same can happen for IPv4.

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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:38PM (#47798433)
> IPv4 will be around for longer than you or I.

That's a matter for the legacy network on the other side of the internet to handle, as it converts my IPv6 packets to IPv4.

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