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0 pointsnitrogen15y ago0 comments

There is one problem. The IPv6-enabled equipment that provides Internet access to the IPv6 sender knows how to route an IPv4 address, but the IPv4 equipment at the recipient's ISP might not know how to route back to the IPv6 source.

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tomjen315y ago· 1 in thread

They would have to replace the equipment anyway

nitrogenOP15y ago

...which kind of defeats the point of backward compatibility, doesn't it?

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