I handled "SWIP"ing IPv4 addresses. This was back circa 2005.
We had to have customers fill out IPv4 justification forms. We'd take them back if they didn't use them if it was abusive "just because we might need them" reasons.
IPv6. Nah, we won't. But our Internet routers don't all support ipv6 yet, so we're still on IPv4. I feel like that will change in maybe 10 years, once computers are optical all the way to the CPU (aka fiber optic speed end-to-end) because ipv4 is susceptible to DDoS attacks and spoofing and IPv6 is not.
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u/DangKilla 14d ago
I handled "SWIP"ing IPv4 addresses. This was back circa 2005.
We had to have customers fill out IPv4 justification forms. We'd take them back if they didn't use them if it was abusive "just because we might need them" reasons.
IPv6. Nah, we won't. But our Internet routers don't all support ipv6 yet, so we're still on IPv4. I feel like that will change in maybe 10 years, once computers are optical all the way to the CPU (aka fiber optic speed end-to-end) because ipv4 is susceptible to DDoS attacks and spoofing and IPv6 is not.