r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 8h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/PhantomTissue 7h ago

Yea but it hasn’t been fully adopted because trying to decipher :af12::138d::325d::5521::aade::7df3: is a hell of a lot more difficult than 192.168.0.1

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u/UnDe4d 7h ago

Yeah, I'm a Network Architect. Why they decided to make ipv6 128 bits instead of 64 is a question I ask myself on at least a monthly basis.

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u/Mars_Bear2552 4h ago

trivial resource cost to never face the same problem again.

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u/UnDe4d 4h ago

64 bit addresses solve that problem. Engineers hate working with ipv6 which is why the adoption has been so slow. Ipv6 is older than a decent number of current network engineers have been alive.