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Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity

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296 points jmillikin | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 08:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ornornor ◴[29 Jun 25 16:05 UTC] No.44414147[source]▶
After all these years I still don’t see a compelling reason to spend days pulling my hair out switching all my machines and home lab to ipv6. I just find port forwarding and firewall rules more intuitive vs the prospect of spending weeks troubleshooting everything, reconfiguring firewalls, renunbering my network.

What am I missing?

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1. roody15 ◴[29 Jun 25 16:16 UTC] No.44414221[source]▶
Nothing. In the enterprise world the benefits vs the negatives of implanting ipv6 is not there. I manage around 3500 devices, 7 buildings and have 2 ten gig wan connections and one 4 gig wan connection and use NAT along with about 26 public ipv4 addresses.

To this day I have no compelling reason to adopt ipv6. Dual stack setup adds unnecessary traffic and complexity for little advantage.

To this day it is still hard to get assigned a block of static ipv6 addresses, have applied twice and been denied.

So not only is there little upside it is also still hard to even get allocated a block.

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/

“Step 1: Verify You Qualify If you meet any of the criteria below, you qualify to receive IPv6 address space:

Have an IPv4 assignment from ARIN or one of its predecessors Intend to immediately be IPv6 multi-homed Have 13 end sites (offices, data centers, etc.) within one year Use 2,000 IPv6 addresses within one year Use 200 /64 subnets within one year“