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Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small
An anonymous reader writes "The impending IPv4 address allocation shortage has led to a lot of speculation on the future of IPv6 (including here). A new study says that Internet IPv6 migration is not just going slowly — it has basically not even begun. After spending a year measuring IPv6 traffic across 87 ISPs around the world, the study concludes 'less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic is IPv6... equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water.'"
What is the airspeed of an unladen IPv6 during its migration?
It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
PEOPLE USING THE FUCKING TT FONT TO ATTRACT ATTENTION TO THEIR WHORISH SELVES, THAT'S WHAT IS A LOAD OF FUCKING NONSENSE. MMMK? THANKS.
To me IPv6 is still nonsense. It is part IPv4 with something on the left side like area zone or ISP code or whatever. I would recommend IPv5: 0.aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd == our IPv4
new IP addresses can be eee.aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and there you have it. We already have regexps matching ipv4
new IP addresses can be eee.aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and there you have it. We already have regexps matching ipv4
new IP addresses can be eee.aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and there you have it. We already have regexps matching ipv4
Hardware is so light-years ahead of mostly-moronic software its amusing to me.
Watch in amazement as floating point gets crushed faster than ever imagined, CPUs blast through short 11 stage pipelines at 3GHZ to deliver blazing integer, L2 caches are MB in size and run at multi-GHz, L1 cache latency is amazingly small, branch predictors are ridiculously accurate.
The only thing software clowns have done since Fortran, C and scheme-lisp is reinvent the same bull-crap over and over and over and over and over again. Polluting the world with tower of babel moronacy, and making damn sure compilers have a difficult to impossible time translating high level trash into anything a blazing CPU can use.
Modern hardware sits largely un-utilized as more and more abstraction makes it nearly impossible to optimize for hardware.
Knuckle-dragging software clowns that use 64MB on a whim would have been unable to write a hello world program on a PDP-11.
All this framework-abstraction has lead to a brutal increase in software memory/CPU footprint with only marginal gains in functionality.
Now the compiler guys have to work overtime to try and clean up the mess, but more and more comes out by the day to make the highly capable hardware underneath slow as dogs.
Software "progress" needs to be halted while the mess is cleaned up. A lot of the 50/60's programming done right is coming back, but the abstraction for retarded programmers is still strong.
Software people: take a few hardware courses. Learn a little verilog, grab an FPGA dev board and fool around with some hardware, talk to a few verification folks and realize that why most ASICs work first revision is because unlike 99.9% of the software clowns, everything in hardware is simulated, unit tested, verified, regression tested and simulated again, sometimes on an FPGA before first silicon.
Software clowns constantly throw broken CRAP over the wall. Regression? Verification? Unit tests? What's that?
Everyone but the software-clowns hates IPv6. Everyone.
Adding a few more octets to ipv4 with a minimally modified protocol would have been super.
Instead the software clowns made a pile of crap with huge vulnerabilities that will never be used in the way dreamed up by the cabal of clowns.
tsarkon