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matja 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Hits 50% IPv6

> I feel like IPv6 is overengineered

In what metrics? IPv6 is more simple to implement than IPv4. In Linux 7.1.1 IPv4 is 84kLOC, IPv6 is 59kLOC.

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