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lot of people do use IPv6 but what turned out to be a big problem (not enough IP addresses for clients) was solved by CGNAT and a simple market (for servers)
by pas 2y ago
lot of people do use IPv6
but what turned out to be a big problem (not enough IP addresses for clients) was solved by CGNAT and a simple market (for servers)
of course it's important to understand that it was cheaper to deploy thousands of CGNAT boxes than to upgrade the whole Internet (and corresponding software)
- giancarlostoro 2y agoSurely most hardware / software that has had no support for IPv6 has been mostly phased out by now?
- jeroenhd 2y agoIt seems cheap consumer ISP hardware works absolutely fine these days, but prosumer/small business devices sometimes still have trouble with hardware acceleration. You can sometimes get that acceleration when you flash OpenWRT so the problem seems to be a lack of effort from companies that should do better. Also, IoT crap tends to disable IPv6 (for saving a few kilobytes of ROM I think) but that stuff is better off locked behind six levels of NAT anyway.
- nh2 2y agoNot even Android has proper IPv6 support. You cannot manually set an IPv6 address or gateway for a WiFi, it's forced DHCP only. All of this works for IPv4.