<div dir="auto"><div>Peace, <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, 12:45 am Serg Galat, <<a href="mailto:greysticky@gmail.com">greysticky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>> You don't need IPv4 addresses for rebuilding IT infrastructure. There are lot of equipment supplied with Keep Ukraine Connected project, the equipment list is public and I'm pretty sure all of this equipment support IPv6.<br>
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> If that would be possible, we would not have this discussion at all, and the transfer of resources would not exist as such. Everybody would just get a fresh block of IPv6 addresses and we would forget about IPv4.<br>
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> And I'm pretty sure you know that, so let's not diverge the discussion.<br>
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As far as I understand you mean that<br>
IPv6 implementation not depend on operators equipment, but depend on end users CPE?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not sure if I understand where this conversation is headed, but anyhow: IPv6 deployment, as of now (as well as long ago, like 2-3 years already), is entirely dependant on the network middleware, which is switches, firewalls, and whatever middleboxes (and their configuration, which sometimes gets inherited from the previous generation of devices).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Endpoints are not an issue. These are, mostly, new. Out of the rest of these (already a minority), most of them are software-updated. I know an ISP who switched one day to IPv6 only and only got a thousand support requests for what should be believed to be a hundred thousand customers database. And they just resolved all of that in a week.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--</div><div dir="auto">Töma</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div>