Reply to post: Re: It's just another thing

IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: It's just another thing

"I agree with the article author in that there's little that jumps out as a compelling reason to make the move "

IPv4 NAT breaks a bunch of things in minor ways. Mostly you won't notice it if you're behind a NAT gateway

IPv4 NAT behind IPv4 NAT breaks a LOT of things in MAJOR ways and is a pain int he arse

CGNAT breaks even MORE things in even MORE major ways

Entire countries are setup like this, particularly in Southeast Asia.

At one point all of Vietnam was behind one /24. Myanmar has 60 million people behind a /19

Just because "It works for you" doesn't mean that IPv4 and the kludges that go with it to kweep it running aren't a clusterfuck on steroids. It just means you don't see the shitshow and endless platespinning that's going on behind the scenes to keep everything running

IPv6 really _is_ easier

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