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by andrewklofas 2305 days ago
Cool project, but no ipv4 support. Can't take an iot os seriously with no ipv4, sorry
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You can use lwip instead of the default GNRC stack for IPv4.

But there is also a PR for IPv4 in GNRC: https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/12988

Ipv6 should be the way to go nowadays, no ? For sensors network, people are using ipv6: as you don't have enough ipv4 adresses for computers and phones, you don't use ipv4 for sensors networks and IOT, that's a nonsense.
I would imagine almost all IoT devices in the home are using IPv4 at the moment, you can’t rely on IPv6 working properly with many ISPs. They don’t have to use public addresses, so scarcity isn’t a problem.
But majorities of ISPs still don't support IPv6 yet. IPv6-only stack will have some problems.