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Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I remember doing an IT course over a decade ago and learning about IPv6 taking over, honestly surprised it hasn’t yet. I just looked it up and apparently they came up with it in 1998. How is it taking so long? Is there some technical reason it’s harder or something? Does the extra address size mean a not so great trade off in traffic or something?

note: I did study a bit of networking and IT but have forgotten everything mostly and work in a different field, thus my ignorance.

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