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Basically the extent of my IPv6 knowledge (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] feoh@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I keep hearing this, and I KNOW it's true at the enterprise level, but I've been running my home LAN IPv6 native for the last - 6+ years? Ever since I learned Comcat would vend it to you from their stock router.

Works great. No problems. Didn't used to be that way, but these days most (more?) of the stack bugs have been shaken out.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a network engineer and I run ipv6 natively in all of our datacenters. There are even a handful of end systems that have ipv6 native networking stacks with ipv4 sockets for our non-ipv6 compatible applications. IPv6 issues are basically self-inflicted at this point by companies that see their IT systems as cost centers, or by basilisk directors who's knowledge stopped in the 90's.

[–] feoh@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I feel like this is one of those memes that just travevls like lightning because it's attractive to people.

IPv6 WAS crazy bad for a very long time, so I can kind of understand it at least, but wake up and smell the 128 bit addressing people, ipv6 is a SUPER useful tool when you need it :)