Comment by nashashmi

5 days ago

IPv4 should have been converted directly to IPv6. Every IPv4 address should have been given an equivalent IPv6 address. 192.168.1.1 becomes 2001:00C0:00A8:0000:0000:0000:0001:0001 or 2001:00C0:00A8::0001:0001.

that exists - ::ffff:0:0/96 space. It even supports dots.

::ffff:192.168.1.1 == 192.168.1.1 (as far as the linux kernel is concerned, in most contexts)