[Question] what exactly is hard about adopting IPv6?? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by danhab99@programming.dev to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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I mean on a technical level. Are the devices that make up the infrastructure of the internet hardwired with IPv4? Is the firmware on these devices impossible to upgrade remotely?

If it's just a matter of software or firmware then adoption should only take like a year but clearly that isn't the case. So what specifically is stopping us?

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[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

At an enterprise level, that's definitely not what we're seeing. Whenever we try to turn it on for any system, there's some major downside that the vendor has zero interest in fixing within the next 10 years.

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