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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 11:12:56 +0200
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On 2025-05-18 09:59, Marc Haber wrote:
> [apologies for falling into the Troll's Followup-To trap]
> 
> Answers to my article in the advocacy group will not be read.
> 
> Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
>> GNU/Linux has total IPv6 capabilities but this is also fully
>> configurable.
>>
>> Since I operate a standalone workstation that is only connected
>> to the Internet via Comcast, my system and software configuration
>> only includes IPv4.  (My local network certainly does not require
>> it.)
>>
>> IOW, I don't need IPv6 and therefore I exclude it.
> 
> That is a stupid idea. Your ISP might finally gain some clue and
> finally enable IPv6 after it has been mandatory on the Internet for a
> decade.
> 
>> Does anybody use or need IPv6?
> 
> North America is cursed with ample IPv4 resources. Not all continents
> have that "luxury" of not being forced off an obsolete proto that
> needs crutches to limp.
> 
>> I suppose that since the vast majority of GNU/Linux users depend
>> on a distro and that since most distros automatically enable
>> IPv6 the answer is that most users have IPv6 enabled whether they
>> need it or not.
> 
> A host with IPv6 enabled has absolutely no disadvantages over a host
> that has IPv6 deliberately disabled. IPv6 doesn't autoconfigure if the
> network doesn't offer it.
> 
> IPv6 allows me to reach any host on my local network directly from the
> network. I use this daily when I'm traveling or working at a different
> site to access my infrastructure.

My ISP did a beta test of IPv6. Something must have gone wrong, they 
seem to have aborted and not deployed IPv6 to the public, except on phones.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.