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Microsoft works toward IPv6-only single stack network

• _bxg1 8y ago
  Wow. Not only can IPv4 not address the whole internet, it can't even address the entire company.
  • zamadatix 8y ago
    It could but it would likely require more effort to rework than just moving to v6. This is different than simply not being able to. I work at a company with a very similar number of users and we are far from exhausting private ipv4 space. Unfortunately between the lack of interest so far and lack of strong control over every device in our network we have not even started deploying ipv6 nor will we be able to switch to single stack again for MANY years.
  • liotier 8y ago
    Exhaustion of private address space is what actually motivated the beginning of a serious IPv6 effort at a well-known big telco that shall remain anonymous. The entire private IPv4 address space could have remained amply sufficient, had it not been squandered by excessive subnetting rules. Rearranging was prohibitively expensive - hence moving to IPv6.