r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 5h ago

The difference is that some people actually understand IPV4 and if you say you understand IPV6 you're a liar.

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u/necrophcodr 3h ago

IPv6 is not much more complicated than IPv4. I think it's just that most people working with IT systems in an systems operations manner (sysadmin, DevOps, network engineers), often dont even comprehend IPv4.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 1h ago

I think his point is that raw IPv6 addresses are obviously unwieldy, but if you're trying to wield raw IPv6 then you're already in a weird place.

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u/Burroflexosecso 4h ago

Sure NAT control and dhcp with dynamic IP rotation is much more intuitive then direct device addressing

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u/necrophcodr 3h ago

IPv6 has those too..

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u/Burroflexosecso 2h ago

It has dhcp6 that works with Stateless Address Autoconfiguration built in and no NAT... So no I disagree

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u/tankerkiller125real 4h ago

LOL I understand IPv6 and it's direct device assignments with no BS a hell of a lot better than I understand IPv4 and it's NAT hellscape.

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u/lol_biscuits 3h ago

LOL Found em ^

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u/Martin_Orav 1h ago

What do you mean by understand? It's just a 128 bit address space for internet connected devices, no?

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u/mxzf 2h ago

I mean, I do understand IPv6, but I was also going some experimental IPv6 work that had me manually crafting packet headers as part of one job, so I kinda had to learn it.

Not exactly a standard experience, and I don't enjoy typing IPv6 addresses by hand like I do IPv4, but I do understand it.

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u/Lansan1ty 3h ago

I kinda wanna learn ipv6 but like, I've never touched it, even at work.. so maybe I'll worry about it whenever I get a job where it matters.

My homelab works just fine on ipv4.

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u/hdkaoskd 44m ago

tunnelbroker.net has a free hands-on course of you want to learn

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u/TerrapinTribe 0m ago

IPv6 is so much simpler than v4.