Post #3663632

2026-06-30 12:09 UTC

I saw the rfc for IPV8 recently... It makes so much more sense than ipv6...and is backward compatible with ipv4... Basically they're proposing prefacing 4 more octets into an IP address, so 172.16.5.1 would become 0.0.0.0.172.16.5.1 Any existing IPs would just assume the 0.0.0.0 in front of them... Again...solves the problem on much the same way.

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@mholiv@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 12:37

Just fyi IPv8 was written by LLM with full on hallucinated citations and references. It isn’t being taken seriously by anyone. It didn’t even make sense. It relies on DNS for nat and the like. Deranged networking plans from the non-mind of an LLM. I recommend taking the time to learn IPv6 properly. It’s actually quite elegant and brings back the peer to peer, endpoint to endpoint connection ability of the old internet.

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