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What I am seeing here mostly is the biggest problem is that you can't hold an IPv6 address in your head. Ever. I can look at an v4 address then 15 seconds late
by sixothree 6y ago
What I am seeing here mostly is the biggest problem is that you can't hold an IPv6 address in your head. Ever.
I can look at an v4 address then 15 seconds later look at another address and know they are different. That's not possible with v6.
So I think people are conflating "difficult to wield" as "more complicated".
- welterde 6y agoIf you only use autoconfiguration perhaps, but for manually assigned addresses it's really not too bad since one can structure them in a logical way (which would be extremely expensive to do in the IPv4 case). If you are a company you can get your own IPv6 space and can structure things hierarchically: <company prefix>:<site>:<vlan>::<hostnumber>. And in fact I can remember more IPv6 addresses for hosts than IPv4 addresses for the same hosts right now.. so there is that.
- oarsinsync 6y agoAnd yet I have fe80:: in my head and 2001:db8:: in my head (as well as my own /32). I don’t have the documentation prefix (if one even exists) for IPv4 in my head. It’s harder, but “can’t... ever” and “not possible” are not true for everyone.