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Today in our newest take on "older technology is better": why NAT rules!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

IPv6 = second system effect. It's way too complicated for what was needed and this complexity hinders its adoption. We don't need 100 ip addresses for every atom on the earth's surface and we never will.

They should have just added an octet to IPv4 and be done with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Please don't I barely understand subnetting as it is.

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