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> flip a switch and it'll mirror your ipv4 setup so you don't have to think about it until you locally need more address space If you think about it, that is w
by sph 2y ago
> flip a switch and it'll mirror your ipv4 setup so you don't have to think about it until you locally need more address space
If you think about it, that is what dual-stack is. You don't have to do anything unless you want more address space.
The issue is that often locally one doesn't need more address space, but the Internet as a whole does.
- rcxdude 2y agoNo, it's not really the same thing: with dual-stack you do need to think about your IPv6 configuration quite deeply, you can't just copy and paste what you're doing in IPv4, even if what you're doing in IPv4 could work just fine with essentially a fixed prefix on all your own addresses. (that said, I'm sure there's subtlety to this which makes it not so easy to implement as a standard. But AFAIK it wasn't even really a goal of IPv6)