• sharpratchet@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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.