Comment by throw0101a
5 days ago
> I disagree. The current adoption woes are exactly because IPv6 is so different from IPv4.
How is IPv6 "so different" than IPv4 when looking at Layer 3 and above?
(Certainly ARP vs ND is different.)
5 days ago
> I disagree. The current adoption woes are exactly because IPv6 is so different from IPv4.
How is IPv6 "so different" than IPv4 when looking at Layer 3 and above?
(Certainly ARP vs ND is different.)
I didn't say it was different 'when looking at layer 3 and above". I said it's different from IPv4. At the IP layer.
At the IP layer just being different is 90% of the trouble. Being less ambitious would have some upsides and downsides but not seriously change that.
> I said it's different from IPv4. At the IP layer.
In what way? Longer addresses? In what way is it "so different" that people are unable to handle whatever differences you are referring to?
We used to have IPv4, NetBEUI, AppleTalk, IPX all in regular use in the past: and that's just on Ethernet (of various flavours), never mind different Layer 2s. Have network folks become so dim over the last few years that they can't handle a different protocol now?