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The point is that actually IPv6 already includes all the complexity you're talking about: complicated multicast to replace complicated broadcast, complicated ro

The point is that actually IPv6 already includes all the complexity you're talking about: complicated multicast to replace complicated broadcast, complicated routing to replace complicated bridging. The underlying problem with IPv6 is that it includes all this complexity because they expected to have to replace layer 2 bridging. But this never happened, so now we have all those features twice, which is worse.

Aloha 9y ago
So IPv6 in essence is the future that was stillborn - we still plan and develop our networks for an IPv4 world, and then run IPv6 on top of them, correct?
- apenwarr 9y ago
  It seems so to me. But someday, years from now, the investment might still pay off. In the meantime it's just pain.