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kachapopopowyesterday at 9:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

the reason why I explicitely disable ipv6 cause "this shit don't work" (at the moment, will probably change in the future)

- random slowdowns

- horrible routing

- larger packet overhead

- hated by a lot of the people who run the internet

- hated by companies who provide ddos protection

- my poor TCAM cache in my budget routers

- supporting ipv6 is really expensive in chassis routers

However, I believe there is a solution: Swap ISP's to IPv6 only, swap to IPv4 unless there is an IPv6 route present then directly forward. This solves quite a few issues: Once every ISP has IPv6 you can drop ipv4 and swap directly to ipv6 without having to split your TCAM. This works because IPv6 can encode IPv4 in it.