On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 11:19 AM Matthew Walster <[email protected]> wrote:
> You still have all the same IPv4 addressing problems, you've just shifted > a portion (bulk, even) of the traffic onto IPv6. IPv4 CGNAT at large scale > is getting ridiculously cheap to do, so it's incredibly unlikely that any > "big" ISP is going to offer an IPv6-only connection, because a large number > of people expect to be able to login to their router, assign static IPs to > their CCTV cameras, run a NAS at home, tinker with a raspberry pi, that > kind of thing [snip] > I think by "large number of people" you mean "small number of people"; I suspect most residential customers will never ever log into their CPE, never ever assign a static IP to anything, as they're not hobbyists or tinkerers, they're just end-users. They're the reason why routers can be sent through the post, why ports have pretty colours on them, why we have WPS buttons, why we have things like Bonjour/zeroconf and link local, and also why their eyes will glaze over if you start trying to explain CGNAT or NAT64. They don't care, they just want to get online and *do stuff*. -n
