alt Hacker NewsAfter 30 years, with 99% of servers and devices having been designed decades after ip6 was created, half of traffic is still ip4.
If that’s not a failure I hate to see what is.
After 30 years, with 99% of servers and devices having been designed decades after ip6 was created, half of traffic is still ip4.
If that’s not a failure I hate to see what is.
> If that’s not a failure I hate to see what is.
How would several billion smartphones be able to connect to the Internet without IPv6?
There isn't enough RFC 1918 (or 100.64.0.0/10) space for IPv4-only to be practical: Comcast—not even mobile—went to IPv6 because running their TR-069 management over multiple 10/8 became untenable.
IPv6 is making all sorts of things possible without most people realizing it.