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First of all, it is not reasonable to blame the protocol for your ISP's inability to configure it properly. Secondly, I don't get this mentality that IPv6 is s
by neilalexander 6y ago
First of all, it is not reasonable to blame the protocol for your ISP's inability to configure it properly.
Secondly, I don't get this mentality that IPv6 is some totally inferior thing and I really don't get people advising others to disable IPv6 just because they don't understand it.
Statements like "IPv4 does everything I need!" are, ultimately, totally missing the point. The fact is that we have hit the scale ceiling of the IPv4 address space and other cracks are showing and now the entire world needs something that will scale for the next few hundred billion devices.
IPv6 is the protocol that will lift the scale ceiling higher, not just for you and your needs, but for everyone. It won't really change anything performance-wise, nor will it change how higher-layer protocols like TCP and UDP work, but that's intentional.
You can hold out on principle if you like but it won't gain you anything. The world will just migrate around you eventually.