Why IPv6?
Two good reasons to move to IPv6 are as follows:
IPv6 has more address space available.
We are running out of public IPv4 addresses.
For more than a decade, the requirement to implement IPv6 has been threatened as imminent. The lifetime of its predecessor (IPv4) was extended more than a decade because of features such as Network Address Translation (NAT), which enables you to hide thousands of users with private IP addresses behind a single public IP address.
With IPv6, upper-layer applications still work like you are used to with IPv4. ...
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