2011-02-05, 11:05 PM
Flonne Wrote:I was under the impression that the only people that -really- have to worry about this are the root levels, the ISPs, and the businesses/corporations that rent out external IPs. For a normal end-user, it's not really going to be that big of a deal, is it? Perhaps I am wrong, but from everything I have heard about IPv6, that is what I am seeing as the trend.
It could potentially change the fundamentals of how you interact with any software that involves or uses IP addresses and any software you use that's closed source, unsupported and strictly IPv4 may cease to work at some point due to this because without translation layers in the OS that do not presently exist they'll become inoperable.
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