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People, IPv6 was introduced 28 years ago! For some reason it is not catching on and probably never will. Let’s try something else. EDIT: my take on IPv6 is t
by krupan 3y ago
People, IPv6 was introduced 28 years ago! For some reason it is not catching on and probably never will. Let’s try something else.
EDIT: my take on IPv6 is this. In the early 2000’s I wanted to run a web server at home. Figuring out how to make my $10 gateway/router do port forwarding was hard. IPv6 sounded like the right solution. Now… none of those problems really exist
- jazzyjackson 3y ago64 bits is too many bits. honestly could have slapped a country+area code in front and gained a few hundred IPv4 addresses per person.
- lajamerr 3y ago128 bits*
- hcarvalhoalves 3y ago> For some reason it is not catching on and probably never will. If a major player is making $1B out of it "not catching on", I agree it never will.
- krupan 3y agoSo that started very recently in the history of IPv6, no? And if IPv6 is so awesome, how are they convincing people to pay for IPv4??
- Dagger2 3y ago...network effects? There are still people with legacy v4-only clients, which can never reach anything other than v4, or on v4-only ISPs. There are enough of them at the moment that we still need to support them. This isn't hard to figure out.