I use IPv6 every day and everywhere I can. It solves so many issues in large corporate and ISP network setups. And yes 10. Wasn’t big enough, and NATing is a PitA.

Honestly we just keep pushing it off when it’s not that bad. Workaround after workaround just because people are lazy.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How much slack did you have in your 10.* network? Or was it literally 16.7 million devices?

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

IPv6 isn't just a larger IPv4. There are features inherent to it, like link-local actually functioning and being predictable, unlike APIPA in v4 which was grafted on as an afterthought and breaks more than it works.

It also functions router-less. You can grab 30 10-port switches and just stick them together and start plugging computers in. It will work without configuration or an authority.

I am all v6 internally, but that's not because I have a splatillion devices, but rather it's just better and easier to manage.

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