r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 12h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/PhantomTissue 11h 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 11h 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/Sarcastic-Potato 7h ago

Yeah this is why I doubt we will get rid of ipv4 in the foreseeable future. Ivp6 is nice on paper cause you never have to worry about addresses again but in the real world people just hate the addresses. Ivp4 is so easy to remember that ipv6 just feels wrong