is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Sun Nov 21 07:44:38 UTC 2021


On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 09:38, John Lee <jllee9753 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cisco and Juniper routers have had v6 functionality for over 10 years. Lucent/Nokia, and others. Check UNL list at
> https://www.iol.unh.edu/registry/usgv6 for v6 compliant routers and switches.

People who work with network devices directly using other APIs than
email. phone and slack know that feature parity to this day is not
there. And know that IPv6 is a massive time commitment, more than
doubling many of the work involved in testing, automating,
provisioning and operating.
I could explain a lot about the relative merits of IPv4 and IPv6
design and how well those design choices map to silicon or benefit
users, but I don't anymore care how bad/good IPv4 and IPv6 are
relative to each other, I'm just tired of the dual stack suck and how
much it steals from me and my users. And how we, the IP engineer
community have failed our customers in this transition. We cocked up,
it happened on our watch.

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