Re: Are we ready for ipv6-mostly networks?
Thought:
(disclaimer: I don't know much about networking)
IPv4 addresses are in some cases 'human readable' / 'human usable' /
'human friendly'.
How can one set up a temporary network of several devices for a LAN
party or any similar connecting application use cases?
From my own experience, the vast majority of people have no idea that
when one tells you "write in: ten zero zero eight", they have to put
dots in between. Because they have no idea what IP address is and how
it's formatted.
I can't imagine I would say this out loud to even a tech experienced
person and they would get it right the first time.
1a01:4204:b07d:af00:21c6:542a:611:73ea
Not mentioning all the times I need to connect devices in many rooms
across several floors in the whole building.
Is there any easy way to keep exchanging the IP address 'human usable' ?
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Michal Schorm
Software Engineer
Core Services - Databases Team
Red Hat
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On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:51 PM Petr Menšík <pemensik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have attended recently csnog.eu conference [1], where some interesting
presentations took place. They were usually in Czech, so it is not
something I am going to share more. But what took my interest were ipv6
readiness with some exceptions. Fedora is ready to be run on dual-stack
IPv4 and IPv6 networks just fine. But the presentation were about future
case where we run most hosts on IPv6 network only, but allow some older
devices to take and use also IPv4 address.
Fortunately there is roughly the same presentation[2] in English, which
took the place on RIPE 85 meeting. What catched my interest were talk
about Windows 11 and Apple systems are ready, but not really talk about
how any linux distribution is ready for such situation. It seems to me
we should improve the support for mentioned mechanisms in Fedora.
What do you think about it?
[1] https://indico.csnog.eu/event/13/contributions/121/
[2] https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/923/