NAT adds latency plus it makes end to end connections very hard to do. IPv6 on the other hand makes thing much simpler since you don’t need to guess the ports.
I do a lot of networking and I like being able to remember IPs and subnetting is a lot easier. I haven’t really realized any issues with latency. Haven’t really had to guess ports either as NAT handles that. I think IPv6 is a good idea and works great for computers, but as I human I prefer IPv4.
IPv6 doesn’t need to be hard. For one you can use DNS since it is probably Tue best in terms of readability.
For addressing you can do a few different things. If you are just looking for simple addresses you can do something like:
2001:ab6f:c5::5
2001:ab6f:c5::6
If you have multiple areas or vlans you also can separate them with site info in the address. Something like:
Site one: 2001:ab6f:1:1::1
Site two: 2001:ab6f:2:1::1
Site two vlan 666: 2001:ab6f:2:666::1
You also can use words like beef and cafe to make it more memorable.
Ipv6 is also nice since subnetting is much simpler. All subnets are /64 so it is very easy to know if an address is in a subnet. No more /19 and other crazy subnetting madness.
IPv4 with NAT > IPv6
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NAT adds latency plus it makes end to end connections very hard to do. IPv6 on the other hand makes thing much simpler since you don’t need to guess the ports.
I do a lot of networking and I like being able to remember IPs and subnetting is a lot easier. I haven’t really realized any issues with latency. Haven’t really had to guess ports either as NAT handles that. I think IPv6 is a good idea and works great for computers, but as I human I prefer IPv4.
IPv6 doesn’t need to be hard. For one you can use DNS since it is probably Tue best in terms of readability.
For addressing you can do a few different things. If you are just looking for simple addresses you can do something like:
2001:ab6f:c5::5 2001:ab6f:c5::6
If you have multiple areas or vlans you also can separate them with site info in the address. Something like:
Site one: 2001:ab6f:1:1::1
Site two: 2001:ab6f:2:1::1
Site two vlan 666: 2001:ab6f:2:666::1
You also can use words like beef and cafe to make it more memorable.
Ipv6 is also nice since subnetting is much simpler. All subnets are /64 so it is very easy to know if an address is in a subnet. No more /19 and other crazy subnetting madness.