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False meme image that says “bad news ipv4 fans. linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results. this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.” with fake screenshots of the linux kernel mailing list a girl calling another one a slur from 4chan over HRT choices and Linus Torvalds saying he will drop IPv4 support and asking the maintainers to learn to shut the fuck up.
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Well, I guess I would move back to Windows and try to find ways to block any IPv6 connections.
Can we just treat this as real? Post it everywhere. You know in a sort of “alternative facts” / flat earth sort of way. So maybe the planet finally moves on from ipv4.
Good news is that Google is reporting that >40% of their traffic is IPv6:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Should crack 50% soon. It’s been a long time coming.
I tried IPv6 only (with NAT64) and Steam didn’t work because it had IPv4 addresses hardcoded :(
I’m ignorant enough that I didn’t realize this wasn’t actually happening until I read the comments. My networking knowledge is piss poor haha.
Don’t worry about the network side of things. It’s open source. Before they turn everything on its head would be forked and it would be replaced.
If you don’t use IPv6, you are behind. For me the transition was so hard, it’s a big step behind me, wouldn’t want to do it again.
I still remember my network lecturer telling us how IPv6 was the future and how we were running out of IPs back in… 1997.
That same year, during my work placement, I was introduced to Squid and all sorts of network fuckery to compensate for those supposedly disappearing IPs.
A major ISP in the UK still doesn’t have any IPv6 support :( https://www.havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/
I wonder if that site pings an IPv6 address on the virgin network and updates the output automatically based on the ping result.
I still don’t have an IPv6 address over 4G with Vodafone. I want to run a web server on my phone, isn’t this a normal use case? Nat444 makes that pretty difficult, just let me use IPv6!
That’s impressive
Scaling NAT is complex and expensive. They are literally making it harder
Cabled from Vodafone is not much better, ip6 does auto configure from the router with a local address, so it at least supports it. but no routable ips yet.
Actually on someone else’s network right now and think it’s cabled Vodafone and I do have IPv6. Only got android to play with right now though, apparently Vodafone are tight bastards for the range of addresses you can get.
Edit: version of Android I am on only let’s you set a static IPv4 address, what a shit operating system
I believed it for a moment
Honestly I need an AI to protect my data.
It’s too much atp
You got me in the first half 😁
Followup:
I’m glad that Linus clarified that it was High Resolution Timers. I was honestly thinking they were arguing about Hormone Replacement Therapy.
Given the demographics of Linux devs, it probably would be the latter.
I know! It seemed totally plausible! There is a very odd discrepancy between that and the general population.
Trans people are either writing kernel code or playing hearts of iron 4. Nothing else is allowed.
It ended up that way though
THE TOASTER WILL BE REPLACED.
Fucking legendary quote from Linus.
It’s a shame it’s fake.
do you have proof that it’s fake though
There is the rule number one of the linux kernel: “We don’t break userspace.” Linux has refused fixes for buggy behavior in the past because of this rule. This would most certainly break userspace.
Also the alt text of the original image states this is fake.
Truly a legend, if true
Chat, is this real?
Check the alt text.
Aw, dang it. I don’t know shit about IPv6 vs IPv4 other than how it be written, but I wanted some chaos
Is the raccoon gif real?
none of this is.
Well I’m not going to switch away my perfectly functional mesh routers that uses IPv4 as using IPv6 on a local net that I may sometimes need to type in manually is rather stupid. And that would also bin my routers, so I’m not doing that either.
Oh well, I guess it’s been fun guys, no more Linux for me due to potential future security issues.
Do you even DNS?
No. But if this is true (which I do doubt completely, Linus can’t be this dumb to singlehandedly cripple his OS), this should also affect every intranet address.
The current description of IPv6 intranet is just ridiculously dumb anyway. Should I want to ssh into a local device, I’ll have to type in for example
fd9e:9aa0:c00f:1::a, with only thefdpart being the same for all intranets rather than192.168.1.10with192.168generally always being the same.Edit: wait… Are you telling me to set DNS redirects on all my local devices? Yeah, that’ll work, but why the even…
I don’t think I’ve entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using
<hostname>.localthanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for… 20 years I think?Cool. My mesh doesn’t have that though (I think?). But admittedly that’s a tangent. If IPv4 ever depreciates, I’ll have to toss my mesh anyway.
I think ipv4 for internal networks is fine.
wait… Are you telling me to set DNS redirects on all my local devices? Yeah, that’ll work, but why the even…
What do you mean by that? I’m pretty sure people are telling you to run a DNS server and set up entries for any clients you want to regularly connect to.
with only the fd part being the same for all intranets
Why?
You will do as you’re told!
Yes daddy!
Truly a Solomonic decision.
A highly nuclear option. I hope that those developers get their act together in time.
this is a joke btw.
I noticed. But sometimes, LT can be a bit explosive, and we all know that devs can be bitches about their code. I would not put it past Linus that he actally threatens some fully nuclear option to bring some boneheads to reason.
Please, at least 85% of that network equipment hasn’t been updated in 30 years and they’re not about to start now.
screams in salt typhoon
IPv4 killed my parents.
Can confirm, I was IPv4
I believe it
Maybe this is the push that finally makes IPv6 go mainstream!
Nah, IPX is gonna take over.
What’s IPX?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetwork_Packet_Exchange
Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) is the network-layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol suite. IPX is derived from Xerox Network Systems’ IDP. It also has the ability to act as a transport layer protocol.
The IPX/SPX protocol suite was very popular through the late 1980s and mid-1990s because it was used by Novell NetWare, a network operating system. Due to Novell NetWare’s popularity, IPX became a prominent protocol for internetworking.
(Just to be clear, IPX is not going to take over, and my above comment was intended to be humorous.)
Let’s fire up a token ring!
(Thanks for the info)
Just got to wait your turn to get the packet
I only got the joke due to starwars pod racer, thankyou pod racer! The ancient pc version allowed you to play upto 8 people on a local network, but box requirements states it needed to be IPX. I have a dream of making a 8 player VM machine in one portable box for parties
It’s IPv10, which binds IPv4 and IPv6 together (4+6=10), sometimes known as Dual Stack.
What’s IPX?
I once asked my college professor of computer networking to explain IPX to me and this was the response I got.
Do you want to play a game?
I think it is more likely that 95% of network equipment supports IPv6
Except whatever brings internet to my apartment apparently
Your ISP needs to setup IPv6 which isn’t trivial to do from scratch.
What provider is it?
Mine is Quantum Fiber, a sister of CenturyLink. CL has it, apparently QF doesn’t. Or at least not natively, rather 6rd. And then possibly not on the modem they installed? At any rate, I haven’t been able to find anything online.
It should have IPv6
Odd
🤷🏼♂️ When I had CL I could turn it on by enabling 6rd and it worked as expected. When I moved across town and got QF, their instructions didn’t account for it and following the same online instructions for CL don’t work. Others online seem to not have had any luck either, but some people’s comments make it sound like it’s the modem.
I’m on one of the regions of fiber that CenturyLink spun off to a private equity firm a few years ago. Zero IPv6 support here
