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False meme image that says “bad news ipv4 fans. linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results. this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.” with fake screenshots of the linux kernel mailing list a girl calling another one a slur from 4chan over HRT choices and Linus Torvalds saying he will drop IPv4 support and asking the maintainers to learn to shut the fuck up.
Ipv4 is simpler and therefore easier for my brain to comprehend.
I deliberately disable IPv6 on all the devices on my home network because it’s really f**n annoying when some service tries to bind to localhost but picks up the IPv6 localhost instead of the IPv4 one
IPv4 is very much not simpler. You just as used to it.
Just remembering an address alone is much simpler.
4 numbers > a combination of numbers and letters in 8 groups
In a local network there is no point in using ipv6.
It is interesting when you run out of ip addresses for the amount of devices you have.
So in the open Internet.
Unless I am missing something.
A couple of things that IPv6 does better for local networks is link local addressing (fe80::). and multicasting.
In IPv4, they kind of hacked something out of 169.254, but if you have more than one NIC, it pretty much becomes useless.
If you have a service designed explicitly never to be accessed over a router, then you can live in fe80:: a lot more easily than trying to do the same thing with 169.254.
Why not? It’s as easy as ipv4