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I just wish IPV6 was mostly about adding more bits to the addresses instead of the clusterfuck that they introduced.
by emilfihlman 8y ago
I just wish IPV6 was mostly about adding more bits to the addresses instead of the clusterfuck that they introduced.
- kazen44 8y agothe "clusterfuck" the introduced is mostly a nice thing in my opinion. Things like MTU path-discovery, NDP and SLAAC make a lot of sense and are definitely improvements over the solutions we have in IPv4. Broadcast makes little sense on a layer 3 perspective. The use of link-local and unique-global addresses also makes sense, and having a different address class for multicast makes implementing multicast more convenient.
- bogomipz 8y agoI agree with all of your points. I didn't understand this however: >"and having a different address class for multicast makes implementing multicast more convenient." IPV4 has a different class for multicast as well - the first 4 bits are 1110. IP range 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255. Or did you mean something else?
- arbitrage 8y agoI doubt it, it's conceptually the same, as you say. I think this is just exemplary of just how much most people, even tech people, don't understand the underlying networking paradigm.