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It's a distinction without a difference. Any protocol with addresses larger than 32 bits will necessarily be incompatible with IPv4, so what does it matter whet
by teraflop 11y ago
It's a distinction without a difference. Any protocol with addresses larger than 32 bits will necessarily be incompatible with IPv4, so what does it matter whether there's a "4" or a "6" in the name?
- protomyth 11y agoIPv6 seems to be a whole lot more complicated than just upping the number of bits used for addresses. Its like they were trying to solve a bunch of things in addition to the address range.
- lmm 11y agoPer the article it mostly has the same headers. What other things are you thinking of? Stateless autoconfig is complex but IPv4 has that option too. Privacy extensions are complex but they are extensions, not the core spec.