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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (21 children)

Ipv6 is the replacement for ipv4. There now exist networks without ipv4

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (17 children)

To expand on this, we have functionally ran out of IPv4 addresses. Meaning IPv6 addresses are required.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Not only that, but ipv6 makes networking easier and less complicated. No longer, needing port forwarding or NAT, amongst other improvements

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's that necessarily a good thing?

I remember suddenly needing a firewall on my PC back in the days of the Blaster worm.

Do we really want all those crappy IoT devices open on all ports to the general internet?