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> I'm confused why people are willing to develop hacks on top of hacks just to avoid using IPv6. It is really elegantly designed As you can see, It's because n
by po1nt 5y ago
> I'm confused why people are willing to develop hacks on top of hacks just to avoid using IPv6. It is really elegantly designed
As you can see, It's because not many people understand IPv6.
Also there are many devices that would stop working. There is no clear path for adoption, everything is "switch and let's see if it breaks". Many systems are legacy systems. Banks still run old IBM mainframes and you would need to think about it when migrating to IPv6.
ISP's are unwilling to implement it as there are not so many qualified workers that even understand IPv6, big companies like Google straight refuse to fully implement DHCPv6 and so on.
IPv6 is IT's esperanto.
- po1nt 5y agoAlso IPv6 was officially ratified 2 years after all IPv4s were exhausted. IPv6 was designed in 1998 when total number of internet connected devices is estimated to be equal roughly our daily increase of internet connected devices.
- dijit 5y ago> Banks still run old IBM mainframes and you would need to think about it when migrating to IPv6. Mainframes are a _lot_ more maintained than you think they are, but overall this is a bit of a weird statement as Mainframes talk TCP/IP for compatability reasons anyway, Mainframes talk amongst themselves using a protocol called SNA/APPN. (Which, can be encapsulated in arbitrary IP frames, but is not required and doesn't require support of the mainframe)
- p_l 5y agoIBM Mainframes, for various reasons including how IBM structured the pricing tend to run pretty recent versions of software. In case of IPv6, all supported OS versions work with v6, the limits involved are also somewhat no longer valid outside of very locked down intranet-only setups.