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Since starlink supports v6, starlink users can p2p communicate with other v6 users. Both starlink and local carriers don't provide proper legacy connectivity, they are encumbered b…

You can get a large block, split it up and announce it from different places but that doesn't stop someone blocking your larger allocation. Getting multiple blocks is harder - the …

Only legacy address space is frequently bought and sold, so it moves between AS#s a lot and is also heavily fragmented. With v6 this is not the case, a given AS# will typically hav…

Likely very old/outdated hardware. China is heavily pushing v6 and their "great firewall" has no problem with it. Another issue they may have however is v6 enabling internal p2p co…

No, but there is a third party FPGA core available which is called 68080, it's used in a modern line of Amiga accelerators and clones.

Singapore has had 10Gbps services available for many years already, for instance see this article from 2016: https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/pcs/viewqwest-is-latest-to... Very fe…

Any junk that adds itself to auto start without giving users the choice is cancer... It's why Apple added a feature to macOS fairly recently which alerts you whenever something new…

This is generally caused by ignorance. Don't understand IPv6 so turn it off without investigating what the actual problem is. Usually it's caused by a broken IPv6 configuration - e…

They are fully compliant, SLAAC is part of the standard whereas DHCPv6 is an optional extra. DHCPv6 also does not work without RA. DHCPv6 just assigns an address, a routable prefix…

The point is until everyone moves to IPv6, the rest of us are stuck having to support dual stack - which is expensive (see the recent story about an ISP supporting a tribal reserva…

Not at all, your "local" network is the link-local address space, which legacy IP has no analog of. The link-local space cannot be routed either intentionally or accidentally. RFC1…

Newspapers still work.. Why are you here at all instead of writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper with good old pen and paper? New technology has benefits, if you d…

The way you see legacy IP addresses is also an abstraction layer, their actual form is as a 32bit integer.

The link-local address is generated when you first enable the interface (ie when you load the drivers for your NIC), it won't change unless you manually force it to. Linux will use…

You're thinking small.. In an organisation of any significant size, remembering legacy IP is much worse than v6. Chances are you will have lots of disparate legacy blocks, some sta…

There's no reason you wouldn't use a VPN in exactly the same way. Just because devices have routable addresses doesn't mean they will allow connections from arbitrary sources. You …

Slammer (and other worms) propagated heavily despite NAT. If anything NAT made it worse, because once a single internal host got infected the worm now has a predictable and well kn…

Some are... China, India, Israel all mandate IPv6 support from ISPs in their territory and the equipment they provide to users, as do some others. The US has mandated IPv6 support …

Pushing all your traffic through a third party cloud server causes a lot of problems. It costs that third party real money to run that server... What happens when they decide to sh…

Most people don't buy their own router, the ISPs bulk buy thousands of routers at a time. The ISPs make up most of the market. Many of these routers are managed by the ISP using pr…

That requires someone who has the ability to monitor all your traffic - ie the government, your ISP, or a hacker who has infiltrated one of those two. In this scenario it's a lot m…

IP networking was designed with separate layers, NAT breaks this by having to span multiple layers. Generally NAT gateways only support TCP/UDP, other protocols are simply not supp…

How is anyone going to discover that? You're going to have a minimum of a /64, noone is going to scan that looking for devices. Even if they do, your firewall is not going to allow…

That's not tracking to you specifically, that's geo location so they're just trying to identify the general area for purposes of showing ads. With IPv6 chances are your ISP has a s…

IPv6 actually makes such attacks more difficult, not less. An attacker looking to be stealthy is not going to blast the network with nmap... ARP is broadcast, NDP is solicited node…