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IPv6 is compatible with IPv4 there are millions of devices with only an IPv6 address that work just fine.
by bauruine 3y ago
IPv6 is compatible with IPv4 there are millions of devices with only an IPv6 address that work just fine.
- hot_gril 3y agoNo, I only have a v4 address with my ISP and cannot use a v6-only device at home.
- bauruine 3y agoIPv6 is backwards compatible to IPv4 but not the other way around. If you have a solution how to address a 128bit IPv6 address with the 32bits available on v4 I'm sure many people are eager to talk to you. It's just not possible.
- hot_gril 3y agoWith a 6-to-4 gateway then yeah. But at that point you're using v4.
- Dagger2 3y agoHow do you expect compatibility with v4 protocols/software/hardware/routers/ISPs to work without using v4? That's a serious question. Do you have a way for this to work? Because I don't think it's possible (for fundamental reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle), and it would be extremely unfair to criticize the designers of v6 for not fixing an unfixable problem.