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  • Good points, the difference being NAT crossing requires something on the inside to enable it, while IP6 security requires the consumer router to be properly configured.

    And I disagree with the assumption that badly configured routers won’t exist if IP6 were the default. Bad design doesn’t magically go away.

    The bottom line is small LANs don’t benefit from IP6 today. Large LANS don’t benefit because they already have extensive IP4 configuration in place, and attempting to migrate is costly, risky, and without a clear benefit to offset those costs and risks.

    Most likely enterprises may use 6 on new networks, but even that is questionable when so many extant products still rely on 4 - you don’t want to create a problem for those systems.



  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldJust do it.
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    Meh, it doesn’t really offer anything for a home network.

    And this is why it really hasn’t be adopted even by business - there’s already a network in place that works. Migrating to 6 doesn’t offer any meaningful benefit to balance the effort and risk of the change.

    Now if you’re an SMB with 3 servers and a handful of computers, would you spend what little IT money you have making this change?

    And if you’re an enterprise with a thousand servers and tens of thousands of users, are you making this change?

    Imagine the cost of reconfiguring routers, and the outages you’d experience doing this.

    There’s just no pressing urgency to change, and LOTS of cost and risk to do so.










  • At least with places like Denver and other western cities it’s pretty straightforward how it happened - everything built along the river. Access to the river was key.

    Being a boom/bust city means that a much later boom they adjusted.

    Then even older cities (think Boston) grew before any opportunity at planning could happen.