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How is a host with a 32-bit address supposed to communicate with a host with a 128-bit address when it can only send packets with a 32-bit address?
That's a solved problem whose solution is called ipv4 over ipv6 tunneling.
IPv6 stand-alone without IPv4 dual stack is not yet an option, but it is getting closer. If you can mirror content and deploy from your mirrors it is entirely possible to do everything over IPv6 alone.
About 30% of my production traffic is IPv6, referring to outside traffic coming in to the systems. Internally almost 90% of the traffic is IPv6 due to the k8s cluster being IPv6 only, and preferring that over IPv4.
Interestingly enough at home on my home connection about 60% of my traffic is IPv6, which has been increasing steadily over the years as other companies have started bringing on-line IPv6 for their services.
Having "grown up" with IPv4, I'm slow to learn everything necessary to set up an IPv6 infrastructure. The times I did look into it, IPv6 seemed so much more complicated than IPv4, but maybe that's just because I'm just not familiar with it. Are there any good resources on setting up IPv6 support from first principles? I still get confused as to the "right" way to set up internal networks for IPv6, especially when DHC…
Everything should get its IPv6 configuration via SLAAC. DHCPv6 is only useful when you plan to provide prefix delegation for extra routers or network boot information.
And this is where government regulation would have helped. It's a shame nobody listened to me back in the 90's: (it's a joke. I'm a nobody, there is nobody listening.) All cell-phones should have been ipv6 from the get-go. Now if we could just go back in time and warn everybody about IPv4 address space being exhausted. And maybe the climate too while we are at it. Seriously though, cell-phone adoption would make that…
It’s not that ipv4 space is exhausted, there’s plenty of it available. It’s that early on it was mismanaged to the point that people / companies were able to buy entire /8’s for basically nothing and hold them forever.
IPv6 has been one of the biggest failures in the last couple of decades. And I don't mean adoption, I mean the standard itself. If IPv6 were IPv4 with more octets, then we would all have been using it for like a decade. Yes, I understand it would still require some breaking changes, but it would have been a million times easier to upgrade, as it would be a kind of superset of IPv4 (1.2.3.4 can be referred as 0.0.0.0.…
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Actually HN is available via IPv6 over Cloudflare. You have to add a CF IPv6 it to the hosts file. In fact I am posting this comment over IPv6.
> hosts file 1986 wants a word.
I only mentioned hosts file because it is the easiest way to spoof the domain.
I was thinking about ipv6 the other day. I concluded in my head that adoption was just around 5-10%. Luckily I went to verify that with statistics. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html While price of ipv4 addresses are increasing, the world has slowly been adopting ipv6. From the graph above, I'd say we cross over 50% in about 2-3 years time. At some point the "dash" to adopt ipv6 starts, and brave fol…
So, from my perspective (which obviously is tied to my location) is that all computers have IPv4 (haven't heard (and I've asked) of a single consumer ISP that offers IPv6) but all mobile phones have IPv6. Whether people in general do most searches on mobile or PC is gonna change that graph dramatically, but won't explain what I would be interested in regarding ipv6 adoption. That is, how much of the world would be broken without IPv4?
And for that, that graph isn't completely useless - but not too far off.
I think IPv6 internal-only is viable with some kind of NAT64 setup, maybe not at scale though. What is everyone using for NAT64?
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How is a host with a 32-bit address supposed to communicate with a host with a 128-bit address when it can only send packets with a 32-bit address?
If it's not "Ipv4+" aware, it wouldn't be able. Otherwise it would understand new packet formats.