Now that we have IPv6 – do we need TCP/UDP port numbers anymore?

Re:Now that we have IPv6 – do we need TCP/UDP port numbers a... by __kmem__ on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @11:59AM (#9892031)

Every new service or process that wants to listen on a NIC would lead to a new ip address created for the same machine, which in turn leads to updating of all possible routers of the internet, which would be a useless waste.

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Re:Now that we have IPv6 – do we need TCP/UDP port numbers a... by coroutines on Friday July 17, 2015 @03:36AM (#9901640)

I do not think this would be so - you would still be under the same route summary/network prefix advertised to you by your ISP's gateway :> Not everyone would get an IPv6 address like this so I do see the waste otherwise ~

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