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New post: IPv6 Foundations.

IPv6 isn't "the future of the internet." It's the internet. IPv4 is the relic we keep alive on NAT life support.

A laid-back tour through the basics: how the addresses are built, the two rules for crushing out the zeros, a /64 per subnet so you stop counting hosts, SLAAC, and why blocking ICMPv6 is a self-inflicted wound.

And no, dual-stack isn't a destination. It's a burden.

blog.hofstede.it/ipv6-foundati…

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IPv6 Foundations: The Internet Protocol You Should Already Be Using

A laid-back tour through the basics of IPv6: how the addresses are built, how to shorten them without losing your mind, how they map onto the IPv4 you already know, and how hosts configure themselv...
Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz Blog)
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I find it quite sad that we have people with such a deep-rooted fear of ipv6 that they think their only legitimate course of action is to completely disable it. As long as we have instructors who " " teach IT " " continue to falsely advise their students against using it because they themselves can't be bothered to understand how simple it is, we will continue to have people who don't understand it in the positions which would otherwise be able to help make things right.
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