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See, what both of you wrote is completely alien and confusing to me. The look of IPv6 gives me an aneurysm. Let me keep my IPv4. You can run IPv6 on your own LAN. I'm not stopping you.
It's a little bit unfamiliar, not the end of the world. It's not complicated and not as nuanced as ipv4 networking. No dhcp necessary anymore on your local network, how good is that? No more trying to hardcode MTU, no strict/open/hairpin/fullcone/etc NAT issues because no NAT, no port forwarding, no fear of IP collisions, less overhead, freedom of many public addresses per interface - host each app on its own public IP address if you desire. Ipv4 over ipv6 is part of the spec so you would never lose ipv4 connectivity. I could go on
Oh I'm sure you can do heaps more with IPv6. And that's great. I'm just saying to me it's super complicated because I have to learn everything from scratch, and again those horrendous long and complicated hex addresses. If I can live my whole life without ever having to type or trying to remember an IPv6 address I'll be a happy guy. IPv4 is super clean and easy at least on the level I'm using it. Those negative things you mention, I've never had to deal with any of that. Except port forwarding, but that's easy and honestly I kinda like how that works for some reason.
But sure, you mention some pretty cool things there with IPv6 that could perhaps come in handy even for me at some point when I start doing more advanced things on my network. So I'll keep that in mind for when that happens. And also, I guess I probably should learn more about IPv6 just to have the knowledge for when I might need it, wherever that may be. But ugh... lol
Roughly speaking, fd00::123 is the IPv6 equivalent of 192.168.0.123