it would obviously involve code updates for compability, and I don’t pretend to know how it would work long term, but it makes the most sense… By prepending the zeros, you expand the number of networks dramatically.
I would guess that no matter what, everything gets an upgrade… But I think this might make it more seamless.
That’s not how header backward compatibility works. IPv4 routers would discard the packet, not prepend zeroes.
it would obviously involve code updates for compability, and I don’t pretend to know how it would work long term, but it makes the most sense… By prepending the zeros, you expand the number of networks dramatically.
I would guess that no matter what, everything gets an upgrade… But I think this might make it more seamless.
Everyone seems to think that IPv6 is a complicated solution to a simple problem, it’s not. If you want to learn more, I managed to track down an article I read a while ago from one of the original IPng engineers. https://github.com/becarpenter/book6/blob/main/01. Introduction and Foreword/Why IPv6 is so complicated.md
we both thought of the same article haha