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It only implements IPv4 which explains to a degree that why IPv6 isn't ubiquitous: it's costly to implement.
It's just not worth it. the only thing keeping it alive is people being overly zealous over it. if the cost to implement is measured as '1', the cost to administer it is like '50'.
It only implements IPv4 which explains to a degree that why IPv6 isn't ubiquitous: it's costly to implement.
It's just not worth it. the only thing keeping it alive is people being overly zealous over it. if the cost to implement is measured as '1', the cost to administer it is like '50'.
Is it my favorite? No. Is it well supported? Not everywhere. Is it going to win, eventually? Probably, but maybe IPv8 will happen, in which case maybe they learn and it it has a 10 years to 50% of traffic instead of 30 years to 50% of traffic.
It only implements IPv4 which explains to a degree that why IPv6 isn't ubiquitous: it's costly to implement.
It's just not worth it. the only thing keeping it alive is people being overly zealous over it. if the cost to implement is measured as '1', the cost to administer it is like '50'.
Hard disagree. It turned out to be great for mobile connectivity and IoT (Matter + Thread).
> the cost to administer it is like '50'.
I'm not sure if that's true. It feels like less work to me because you don't need to worry about NAT or DHCP as much as you need with IPv4.
Are there TCP/IP stacks out there in common use that are allocating memory all the time?
Are there TCP/IP stacks out there in common use that are allocating memory all the time?
Packets and sockets have to be stored in memory somehow. If you have a fixed pool that you reuse it's basically a slab allocator.
passt (the network stack that you might be using if you're running qemu, or podman containers) also has no dynamic memory allocations. I always thought it's quite an interesting achievement. https://blog.vmsplice.net/2021/10/a-new-approach-to-usermode... https://passt.top/passt/about/#security
Are there TCP/IP stacks out there in common use that are allocating memory all the time?
It only implements IPv4 which explains to a degree that why IPv6 isn't ubiquitous: it's costly to implement.
It's just not worth it. the only thing keeping it alive is people being overly zealous over it. if the cost to implement is measured as '1', the cost to administer it is like '50'.