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> and avoid the cognitive load of IPv6 That’s the same reason i gave up and disabled ipv6… i think i might be too old to wrap my head around it. Ipv6 seems rea
by DavideNL 5y ago
> and avoid the cognitive load of IPv6
That’s the same reason i gave up and disabled ipv6… i think i might be too old to wrap my head around it. Ipv6 seems really complicated to setup compared to ipv4.
- zekica 5y agoIt is not complicated. It is using different conventions. You can say that ZFS/BTRFS are more complicated than XFS/EXT4 + device mapper, but while it may be slightly more complicated, the more important thing is that they are different. It took me a while for IPv6 to "click". I still don't like a couple of RA/NDP related settings, but it works and is much much easier not to deal with NAT.
- magicalhippo 5y ago> It is not complicated. Personally I find it a lot more complicated, and not just because it is different. Part of it is inherent complexity, part of it is that it's still evolving as a specification, part of it is ISP's not following best practices, part of it is lacking software support. I'm trying to keep IPv6 enabled. But every few months I hit some issue where IPv6 is the reason stuff stops working or I can't get something to work, and it's just oh-so-tempting to switch off IPv6.
- zekica 5y agoFor example: "You will find that on the LAN host, their default route and gateway point to the Link-Local address of the machine acting as the IPv6 gateway/router. This is entirely normal and expected."