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Comment by cyberax

> I don't get your point. IPv6 is at "boring, just works". The majority of the worlds devices run on it dual-stack and it handles a considerable amount of traffic.

Most of the world runs on IPv4. If we shut down IPv6 on the core routers tomorrow, pretty much nobody is going to blink an eye. And now I believe that we should do it and start again.

The 50% stat is really mostly mobile phones on cellular networks, which remain the _only_ major success story for IPv6. Mostly because there's not enough private or even squattable IPv4 space available for many large mobile phone operators.

> IPv6 is very much alive. And it's so boring and working so well, that you don't even notice it.

Sigh. No, it's not. In a thread a couple of weeks ago, I gave several examples:

1. You're a SOHO-type business. How can you do multiple WAN uplinks with IPv6 without NAT?

2. How do you prevent your printer on IPv6 from breaking when your Internet connection goes down?

For context: I deployed IPv6 in my networks in 2006. I have war stories.

parent cyberax 2 days ago

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