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"Legacy" IPs would have no way to access "new" IPs; they have no way to differentiate "0.192.168.0.1" from "1.192.168.0.1"
by justinsb 11y ago
"Legacy" IPs would have no way to access "new" IPs; they have no way to differentiate "0.192.168.0.1" from "1.192.168.0.1"
- neilellis 11y agoYou'd need translation on router's of course because without upgrades they wouldn't understand the variable sized address space - but since I'm seeing people route IPv4 over IPv6 it's not completely insane.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoYou'd need translations everywhere - you couldn't just "let the router decide", the end nodes would need to support this as well. ( Let's say we had IPvIII, consisting of just three bytes per address: 10.1.2 - and now we went from that to 10.1.2/24, i.e. 10.1.2.0-255. How does the router to know that an IPvIII client is requesting 10.1.2.15 ? It doesn't. The extension from IPv4 to IPv4+ is equivalent.)