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Five ways for IPv6 and IPv4 to peacefully co-exist
Posted by: Jordi on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 12:18 AM
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It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn’t. In 1981, IPv4’s 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than enough addresses for the ARPANet/Internet. That was the Internet then, this is the Internet now.
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