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		namibj on Sept 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Support for IPv6 They are, though? It's how dual stack sockets work, they just map IPv4 into the part of IPv6 where they belong.

paperplatter on Sept 19, 2024 [–]

But then you're still using ipv4.

namibj on Sept 29, 2024 | [–]

You can; but I'd not be surprised if there are commercial setups that use IPv6 packets for everything, including situations with IPv4 addresses. I think it would allow getting rid of most of the ethernet header overhead, by basically just talking bare IPv6 packets.

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