| ▲ | throw0101a 3 hours ago | |
> My company has just turned off all ip6 connectivity for its corporate laptops because it’s considered a security risk. If your corporate laptops are running Windows, then you're going against the officially supported configuration of the vendor (Microsoft): > Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a mandatory part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and newer versions. > We don't recommend that you disable IPv6 or IPv6 components or unbind IPv6 from interfaces. If you do, some Windows components might not function. * https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve... > Cg nat does everything that’s needed […] Except for making it convenient for end-user to, say, play P2P video games, or host Mindcraft servers, etc. > […] and 6 alone sadly still doesn’t work reliably. It's so unreliable that half of all Internet traffic uses it. It's so unreliable that Microsoft has been going IPv6-only in their corporate networks (a decade ago): * https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam/ipv6-only-at-microsoft/ It's so unreliable that Google is now 99% IPv6-only/mostly on their corporate networks: | ||