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bytechiemikey ( 1126169 ) writes:
who is this guy and why does he control what happens with my internets?
bydeftcoder ( 1090261 ) writes:
He sounds like an author of fiction to me...
If I see IPv6 implemented worldwide in my lifetime, I'll be really surprised.
byAGMW ( 594303 ) writes:
What I don't understand is why the IPv4 address space isn't mapped conveniently into the IPv6 address space (the first set of addresses ... ie 000.000.000.. ... then you can run both "internets" side by side. The major intenet trucks etc could be upgraded first (as required or as h/w gets old and needs replacing anyway), etc, until it is your choice if you want to see or use an IPv6 address, if you do, you just need to upgrade your end, and if you want to wait a bit, that can be your call!
But I must be mi
byarun_s ( 877518 ) writes:
This is actually already possible. There are at least two types of v4-compatible v6 addresses (the first one's deprecated, I think):
::127.0.0.1
2002::127.0.0.1
Anytime you move from a v4 to a v6 network, your gateway automatically prepends the 2002:: prefix to make your IP a v6 address. The problem here is that you have to have a public IPv4 address for this to work. If you're inside a NAT'ted network, your private address wouldn't be translatable to a corresponding v6 equivalent.
p.s. a link [twibble.org].
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byjez9999 ( 618189 ) writes:
Where'd you get 2002:: from? I thought IPv4-mapped addresses were ::ffff::IPv4 address.
bySpazmania ( 174582 ) writes:
No, 2002:: is for 6to4. You map the IPv4 address in right after the 2002 and the machine at that IPv4 address serves as the gateway to a /48 of IPv6 addresses. For example, if your 6to4 gateway's IPv4 address is a.b.c.d then its IPv6 address is 2002:aabb:ccdd::1 and it supplies IPv6 connectivity for 2002:aabb:ccdd::/48.
6to4 is a good idea that could be great but isn't because it depends on a small network of volunteers to run encapsulators and decapsulators. The volunteers would be overrun if any meaningful
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