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[-] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

IPv6 isn't just a larger IPv4. There are features inherent to it, like link-local actually functioning and being predictable, unlike APIPA in v4 which was grafted on as an afterthought and breaks more than it works.

It also functions router-less. You can grab 30 10-port switches and just stick them together and start plugging computers in. It will work without configuration or an authority.

I am all v6 internally, but that's not because I have a splatillion devices, but rather it's just better and easier to manage.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well sometimes the lla is not predictable, some stacks take privacy addresses to lla, which is silly but they do it. Of course you can multicast ping and check your neighbor table to get the lla chosen in such cases.

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