• tallwookie@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I remember trying to wrap my head around it close to 20 years ago back in tech school & while i know IPv6 is used out in the real world at the ISP/backbone level, every corporation I’ve ever worked for uses a class A IPv4 network internally (and maybe a few class D’s too). every network I’ve ever used at home is class C IPv4.

    IPv6 is some nebulous thing that exists but I’ve never needed to do anything with it…

    • Kissaki@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      The good thing is that for most people IPv6 happens and is used transparently. They don’t notice whether and how their web-browser and OS uses IPv6 or IPv4.

      IPv6 certainly introduced additional complexity to networking, network routing/decision-making, and administration. But it was/is a technical necessity.