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IPv4 will never disappear, it will just fade into obscurity. (We'll probably be dead and buried long before that time.)
by icedchai 4y ago
IPv4 will never disappear, it will just fade into obscurity. (We'll probably be dead and buried long before that time.)
- Dagger2 4y agoJust like IPX. It's still necessary and in use for some things -- so it hasn't reached its end of life -- but when was the last time you ever thought about it? By this metric, we still haven't finished migrating to v4.
- __d 4y agoI'm curious: what still uses IPX in 2022?
- icedchai 4y agoI have no doubt there's an internal application running on a Novell server somewhere that we'll never hear about. It's still running on a machine in a closet just like it was in 1997, or possibly imaged and migrated to a VM because nobody wanted to touch it.
- Dagger2 4y agoRed Alert 2! They never added IP-based LAN play to it.
- icedchai 4y agoTrue. I could see a world where IPv4 is only for legacy, internal systems and it is not routed externally, but that feels like decades away. There would need to be a coordinated effort of major ISPs to turn it off, but why would that happen if people are willing to pay for it?