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Why not IPv6? Pretending that it doesn't exist??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_transition_mechan...


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duskwuffyesterday at 7:33 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the hardware under management (e.g. IP cameras, NVRs, cable modems) lacks support for IPv6, and/or the customer networks that it's resident on don't have working IPv6 transit.

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pcarrollyesterday at 9:36 PM

IPv6 is very badly supported at the low end of the market. Cheap webcams, doorbells, etc. And that not counting already old equipment... If we had a nuclear war, we could start over. But for now, we are stuck. Blame it on Cisco for inventing NAT.

lxgryesterday at 3:20 PM

IPv6 solves the addressing problem, not the reachability problem. Good luck opening ports in the stateful IPv6 firewalls in the scenarios outlined in TFA:

> And that assumes a single NAT. Many sites have a security firewall behind the ISP modem, or a cellular modem in front of it. Double or triple NAT means configuring port forwarding on two or three devices in series, any of which can be reset or replaced independently.

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