[TriLUG] Adding to the list of topics: IPv6

[Tanner Lovelace]

Ed Hill wrote:

> And while I'm no network guru, I think its a shame that IPv6 wasn't
> designed in a way that more-or-less seamlessly extended IPv4.  Can
> anyone give a solid reason why all the current IPv4 address aren't
> automatically mapped to valid IPv6 addresses?

Aren't they?  I thought they were.  It's getting to all the IPv6
addresses (the new ones) that don't map to IPv4 that I thought
was the big problem.  (Of course, I could be just guessing here. :-)

Cheers,
Tanner
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