Reply to post: Re: IPv6 needs a catalyst

Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout

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Re: IPv6 needs a catalyst

It all sounds so easy until you realize that the port number is a fixed field in the IPv4 header and changing it would break backwards compatibility and that would have most of the same deployment issues that IPv6 has.

So just implement lossy compression of port numbers, duh!

I'm a genius.

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