• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      No shit.

      But a private Lan will never need it.

      There are 4 billion+ possible IP v4 addresses, nearly 600 million in the current private range.

      Show me a private network with 600 million devices.

      There’s no reason a device that doesn’t have a direct internet connection needs IP6.

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        10 months ago

        Ideally, using just IP6 would be simpler, as every device gets a global address. Then you don’t need to mess with NAT, port forwarding and all that bullshit. Every device having multiple addresses just complicates things.

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        10 months ago

        A device on your private IPv4 network can send packets directly to 104.21.36.127 via NAT. How will it send packets to 2606:4700:3033::6815:247f? There’s not enough space in the IPv4 header.