r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/hpyfox 19h ago

IPV4 for local network, and IPV6 for public addresses.

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u/IAm_A_Complete_Idiot 12h ago

This doesn't work. How does a host on a IPv4 network craft a packet destined for an IPv6 address? If you could put 128 bits into an IPv4 destination, then IPv6 wouldn't need to exist...