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eptcykatoday at 7:35 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why not use plain IPv6 instead?


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TuxPoweredtoday at 12:03 PM

Even with IPv6 you still might have stateful firewalls allowing only for outbound connection at both ends (e.g. a CPE a.k.a. “WiFi router”) and to establish communication you’d need to punch a hole in those firewalls.

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cbdevidaltoday at 8:25 AM

V6 adoption has reached 46.82%[1]. So it is increasingly viable for this.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html