The addresses are longer (32-bit) and hexadecimal so you have sixteen digits 0-F. It also doesn’t require NAT and has native IPSec, whereas ipv4 requires addons. There are probably other differences, I hate networking.
IPv6 without stateful DHCP can reveal your device since the latter half of the address is comprised of your device’s MAC address. Unless you use randomized MAC, I guess.
There are some other advantages because they are globally unique. NAT, as you mentioned, is a big one. Anycast is another, but I don’t fully understand how that works. It somehow assigns the same IP to multiple hosts for redundancy.
Wow, I didn’t know that it could reveal your MAC. I set all my devices to randomize, but I doubt most people know to do this. Did a cursory bit of research and it seems newer configurations avoid this at least.
The addresses are longer (32-bit) and hexadecimal so you have sixteen digits 0-F. It also doesn’t require NAT and has native IPSec, whereas ipv4 requires addons. There are probably other differences, I hate networking.
I feel you
Also, thank you for the info, i just knew about the 32 bit thing!
IPv6 without stateful DHCP can reveal your device since the latter half of the address is comprised of your device’s MAC address. Unless you use randomized MAC, I guess. There are some other advantages because they are globally unique. NAT, as you mentioned, is a big one. Anycast is another, but I don’t fully understand how that works. It somehow assigns the same IP to multiple hosts for redundancy.
Wow, I didn’t know that it could reveal your MAC. I set all my devices to randomize, but I doubt most people know to do this. Did a cursory bit of research and it seems newer configurations avoid this at least.