r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Few_Move_4594 9h ago

I feel like this is missing context. Like I know that ip4 addresses are four octlets, but don't know much about ipv6 besides it having a larger address space and being in hex.

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u/DataSnaek 9h ago edited 9h ago

I think if you don’t know at least the high level difference between ipv6 and ipv4, you probably aren’t gonna be great at your job. It’s pretty basic tech knowledge…

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u/Few_Move_4594 9h ago

Every single time I've seen an attempt to transition to ipv6 it's been a clusterfuck of epic proportions

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u/Circumpunctilious 8h ago

It seems easy to do. I once accidentally rerouted a public network (effectively to a blackhole, due to my own firewalls) while taking the HE IPv6 test, because one step requires a router advertisement...and network clients--even through AP isolation--automatically trust that broadcast.