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IP stacks have been fine for many years. There was some problems years back where some ISP's networks would have really crap internal IPv6 connectivity, so IPv4
by stephen_g 11y ago
IP stacks have been fine for many years. There was some problems years back where some ISP's networks would have really crap internal IPv6 connectivity, so IPv4 routes had much lower latency than IPv6 - but that was mainly bad network design and operation.
All major operating systems have what's called 'happy eyeballs' algorithms to pick the best path for each connection. Apple updated theirs last year and reported that with most networks they tried, IPv6 was selected as the preferred option ~99% of the time it was available[1].
1. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg22455.html https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg22455...
- stock_toaster 11y agoApparently many vendors do not yet support RFC 6724, or support it poorly with regard to ULA addresses. As such, I get mixed results with devices that have both a ULA and a global address, with the device trying to use the ULA address (instead of the global address) for global network egress.