Happy World IPv6 Day!
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I have IPv6 enabled... still waiting to see something important.:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Been threaten with IPv6 for year now, soon it will be IPv8.
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Been threaten with IPv6 for year now, soon it will be IPv8.
Norm .net wrote:
soon it will be IPv8.
The engineers need to live right :cool:
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I have IPv6 enabled... still waiting to see something important.:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
I have it disabled. I think the reason for disabling it was I was sick of seeing long addresses when pinging machines on the LAN whereas I can generally remember the IPv4 addresses. Is there any need to use it on a LAN anyway? I only need about 20 addresses in my home and most of those are virtual machines. Does the protocol need to be enabled on the client in order to access a website that only has a v6 address? I'm guessing it would though guessing the router would also need a v6 address and none of my 2 in-use routers or various spare routers seem to support it. I think the whole thing is overhyped anyway - the argument I always see is about mobile phones and increasing numbers of devices in the home needing an address. But devices in the home generally all share a single external IP via NAT anyway, and mobile phones only need one while doing something internet-related, or do the newer ones tend to maintain a permanent always-on connection?
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I have it disabled. I think the reason for disabling it was I was sick of seeing long addresses when pinging machines on the LAN whereas I can generally remember the IPv4 addresses. Is there any need to use it on a LAN anyway? I only need about 20 addresses in my home and most of those are virtual machines. Does the protocol need to be enabled on the client in order to access a website that only has a v6 address? I'm guessing it would though guessing the router would also need a v6 address and none of my 2 in-use routers or various spare routers seem to support it. I think the whole thing is overhyped anyway - the argument I always see is about mobile phones and increasing numbers of devices in the home needing an address. But devices in the home generally all share a single external IP via NAT anyway, and mobile phones only need one while doing something internet-related, or do the newer ones tend to maintain a permanent always-on connection?
There's no need for it on a LAN, unless you happen to have more than 216 - 2 PCs in your house or office. But the need for it is real, nonetheless. The stock of available IP addresses was already getting tight before cell phones started sucking them up. Large companies, governments, and ISPs have huge blocks of numbers reserved, and that's tied up an awfully large chunk of them. If NAT and DHCP had been invented first, before the big users got used to having dedicated public IP addresses for everything, it might have worked out differently.
Will Rogers never met me.
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:sigh: about as big of a let down as the rapture.
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