Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)
On 8/2/22, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote:
>> Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay!
>
> I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not
> announced any plans to discontinue it?
correct
it's quite likely that I'll be dead before IPv4 goes away.
> I feel like I'm getting too old to learn (too many) new things, so if my ISP
> made a similar announcement, I'd want to stick with IPv4.
If it helps, IPv6 seems faster. It _is_ a huge learning curve.. but
dumping all the kludges that were required to get a world-wide network
to fit into a 32 bit address space seems worthwhile even if not
absolutely required now.
> Or, I'd be looking for a very simple explanation of how to switch to and use
> Ipv6 -- not looking for that now, but Imight have to at some point. :-(
yeah.. nothing simple that I've seen :(
Regards,
Lee
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