[privateSFacct]

Do you admin a medium or larger network? Despite the strength of your comment it also illustrates some ignorance.

"No way", "weird persistent idea".

This despite many reasonable people suggesting it.

Deploying IPv6 at scale is deploying a totally different protocal. What is irritating is that it's not just a larger set of bits, everything changed making adoption and tooling MUCH much harder.

"All the tools would need to be thrown out"

Totally and absolutely false. Because an extended Ipv4 would have the same underlying concepts you could modify the tools and continue to use them.

From address assignment (3 ways now) to the dynamic address privacy extensons (don't actually play well with IPSEC configs) to doing renumberings on prefix changes (100% nightmare) to all the training / learning new things (costs money in bigger orgs) they seem to have purposely made this change extremely hard.

Good news, I'm on board more or less with the migration at this point, and if I am a good marker of average reasonable interested in new things but not wasting tons of time then this is a good sign.

But boy they could have made this whole thing easier

[hkt]

> "All the tools would need to be thrown out"

> Totally and absolutely false. Because an extended Ipv4 would have the same underlying concepts you could modify the tools and continue to use them.

Exactly. ARP64 and DHCP64 etc would be minor modifications and much easier to pick up.