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No, but imagine if Google, Meta and Netflix all publicly agreed to stop supporting IPv4 in X years. _Everybody_ would rush and make sure to switch everything t
by reddalo 9mo ago
No, but imagine if Google, Meta and Netflix all publicly agreed to stop supporting IPv4 in X years.
_Everybody_ would rush and make sure to switch everything to IPv6.
- hamdingers 9mo agoJust thinking of the mountains of ewaste that decision would produce makes me ill.
- immibis 9mo agoAlmost every network in existence runs on layers of tunnelling, so you can run arbitrary protocols over fixed hardware. We tunnel IP over Ethernet and then we don't have to replace our switches to use new IP versions or features. Most clouds use VXLAN. Many ISPs actually tunnel your IPv4 traffic over a purely-IPv6-only network, to a specific device whose job is to deal with legacy IPv4. The reverse is also possible if you have a network that can only handle IPv4.
- fcantournet 9mo agoThere is very little hardware that would actually be ipv6 incompatible. We're talking network equipment from 15+ years ago, which is also obsolete because it's 1Gbps at 10x the power usage of a 10gbps switch.
- hamdingers 9mo agoWhat about end user hardware? Chromecasts, TVs, IoT-whatevers, POS machines, kiosks, signage, etc.
- shwaj 9mo agoIf they set the deadline in 10 years, there would be (smaller) mountains generated in that period anyway.
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