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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: sjonke on Jan 22, '04 11:13:26AM

So, why would I care if it was using IPv6 versus IPv4? What does IPv6 do for me? IPv6 is a big mystery to me. If a web site has an IPv4 address why would using IPv6 for it be better?

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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: Crimson Napkin on Jan 22, '04 03:42:11PM

The primary difference between the two is that one, namely IPv6, is 2 numbers MORE than the other, namely IPv4.
The other significant difference is that it sounds quite cool to throw the word around (kind of like... hold on a minute, let me hop over to slashdot...OK, here we go "real-time enterprise", "beowulf cluster", "Jakarta Struts", and "WSDD based dynamic deployment"... damn, I think I grew a chest hair just typing those in.)



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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: stephen007 on Jan 22, '04 09:25:49PM

>damn, I think I grew a chest hair just typing those in

And I just busted a gut reading your response :-) LOL.

Stephen



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Red Rag
Authored by: NeutronMonk on Jan 23, '04 05:09:39AM

Score:4, Funny



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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: raider on Jan 23, '04 01:19:17PM
While your comment was 99% on the mark, and funny - I would point out that Jakarta Struts is widely used, and actually is a real tangible thing that has reasons for using and all of that real world benefit stuff. Unlike IPv6.

Oh, and if Chest hair is a sign of manly-ness, than I AM A GOD!

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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: the1truestripes on Jan 22, '04 04:34:16PM

If you have set your own system up to use IPv6 then clearly you would care, and if the other system had gone to the trouble to set up IPv6 they would care.

If you don't care, then well, that's fine.

IPv6 does do some nice things, for example encryption is built into it, if it had be deployed rather then IPv4 nobody would have needed to invent https, or ssh the old easy protocols would have been fine. That is important because it means people don't have to reinvent (normally poorly!) security for each and every network protocol. As another example because it has a very large address space ISPs that provide IPv6 don't charge extra for globally reachable static addresses (i.e. you can run a server, and things like iChat AV work easier, so do P2P type programs). As another, about half of what Rendavus gives you was inspired by IPv6.

On the other hand nothing much about IPv6 is earth shaking. A lot of what was "only in IPv6" got pushed back into IPv4. A lot of it can be worked around. It would be nice if we all switched to IPv6, but the world won't end if IPv4 hangs around forever (which is good, as it will!), or even if IPv4 remains dominant forever - which may happen.

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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: u502sou on Jul 01, '07 03:29:03AM

[why use ipv6 when ipv4 is available, too?]

In an ideal world, you'd have a point. However, for me the question is the other way round: why use ipv4 when ipv6 is available, too? My ipv6 provider is cheaper than my ipv4 provider, so I want to use ipv6 as much as possisble.

Also, there are operational benefits - I don't fill the IP-NAT gateway's translation table when I use the directly-routed ipv6 - my ipv6 provider gives me a network, so the Mac has its own global address.



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