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I’ve worked for a company that was barely using its /16. I know several individuals, including myself, with personal /24s.
I recently released a /24 that I registered in 1992 and I hadn’t realized it was still mine. ARIN was gonna charge me $100 to authenticate and recover the account, but once I asserted and notarized my letter of relinquishment, the process went real quick!
If anyone is confused on adoption is so slow when supporting it is easier than ever the reason is actually quite simple: it's expensive. Switches and routers have a little thing called TCAM memory, the premise behind it is that it allows you to single-cycle O(1) lookup any ips destination. Usually to replicate it you could have a 4gb*2 preallocated contiguous buffer, but that's not something that is wildly supported…
The link in the OP shows that IPv6 typically gives users 10-20ms lower latency. This confers with my experience since IPv4 is typically going through some poor overloaded CGNAT box.
[1] https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage#ipv4-vs-ipv6
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This problem exists for ipv4 too: some machines have static address, others have dynamic, so you can implement overrides.
Ipv6 is cheap though. If I want to get past your IP or per Network limit, options abound.
Stuff like bouncing a modem, getting a new VPS, making a VPN connection I would expect to be pretty similar. And getting a block officially allocated to you is a lot of work.
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Yeah I get all that, but the only two connection types that are useful are http/s/ and ssh. SSH can have work-arounds like the way google does. Let's let the people that want non http workloads pay more.
Remember that, at one stage, the only two types that were useful were FTP and telnet. HTTP and SSH didn't even exist. Let's not strangle the next big thing that doesn't exist yet before it can even be born, yeah?
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a browser you at least have the ability to change though. if your ISP doesn't offer v6 you're SOL really
ISPs almost all offer IPv6. The reason the US number is not higher is lazy corporate networks.
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Oh, cool! that's on my bucket list as well. I am still grappling with some concepts, though. Do you have a writeup of your setup somewhere or can you recommend some learning materials ?
It's fun and has now become an addictive rabbit hole - trying to get packets from one location to the other in the fastest, most direct way (and at hobbyist budget level). Initial writeup based on IPv6: https://abarber.com/Setting-Up-ASN-IPv6-Routing-BIRD-Teltoni... Have been having fun recently with an IPv4 block and Asynchronous routing, working on writing that up right now :)
Just in time for ipv8 - https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
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Hetzner makes you pay 1 € per IPv4, while IPv6 is free. I'd gladly get rid of all IPv4's given that I have many servers.
OVH does the same, but only gives you a /128. Which is ridiculously shitty of them.
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This problem exists for ipv4 too: some machines have static address, others have dynamic, so you can implement overrides.
Ipv6 is cheap though. If I want to get past your IP or per Network limit, options abound.