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		kempbellt on Nov 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 Is a Nightmare Aside from occasional snark, I don't understand most of your comment, and certainly don't see any good points that support IPv6 over IPv4. > This is 99.6% wrong. I guess v4 isn't _that_ simple, huh? Apologies for not being concise enough, I thought my point would have stuck regardless... 192.168.x.x You are correct though. Mistakes also happen with v4 and it's not simple to a laymen, but it is certainly simpler than v6.

Dagger2 on Nov 10, 2020 [–]

I think v6 is simpler in practice, due to not needing NAT. If the first part of my post is difficult to understand then that serves as a good demonstration of how hard v4 is once address exhaustion and NAT enter the picture.

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