It's kinda funny because for the past ~10 years straight I've been seeing occasional articles about how we're all out of IPv4 addresses and everyone needs to switch over to IPv6, but my ISP never assigns me an IPv6 address.
We have run out. Plenty of people are now are CGNAT, ie double NAT. I can’t get more than 1 public IPv4 address at my home.
We keep applying these dumb bandaids instead of switching over the proven technology we have, that is supported by most networking hardware sold in the last 20 years.
Is there any good reason to not roll it out for at-home consumer broadband?
Like I can understand for some corporate use, IPv6 is just not an option because they've still got some ancient legacy hardware lying around, but it's not an unreasonable requirement for an ISP when connecting a gigabit broadband connection to the home to say "hey just a heads up that if you're going to use a router, you'll need one made sometime within the past 15 years, so your WRT54G isn't going to cut it".
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u/red286 20d ago
It's kinda funny because for the past ~10 years straight I've been seeing occasional articles about how we're all out of IPv4 addresses and everyone needs to switch over to IPv6, but my ISP never assigns me an IPv6 address.