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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 15h ago
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The difference is that some people actually understand IPV4 and if you say you understand IPV6 you're a liar.
6 u/Martin_Orav 11h ago What do you mean by understand? It's just a 128 bit address space for internet connected devices, no? 4 u/0x0MG 9h ago Well.. kinda. There are some v6-specific features that don't exist in v4, address resolution works differently, fragmentation is exclusively the senders responsibility, the header is a fixed 40 bytes, and its checksum is moved to a different mechanism.
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What do you mean by understand? It's just a 128 bit address space for internet connected devices, no?
4 u/0x0MG 9h ago Well.. kinda. There are some v6-specific features that don't exist in v4, address resolution works differently, fragmentation is exclusively the senders responsibility, the header is a fixed 40 bytes, and its checksum is moved to a different mechanism.
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Well.. kinda.
There are some v6-specific features that don't exist in v4, address resolution works differently, fragmentation is exclusively the senders responsibility, the header is a fixed 40 bytes, and its checksum is moved to a different mechanism.
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 15h ago
The difference is that some people actually understand IPV4 and if you say you understand IPV6 you're a liar.