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by drewg123 1760 days ago
Why is this getting downvoted?

Just think how much simpler it would have been to keep all the IPv4 tooling with just an ifdef to make the addresses wider, and a few version changes for IP and ARP.

Part of what makes V6 adoption lag is that it took a while to be supported across the board by router vendors, OS vendors, etc. And a lot of the reason for that is all the gratuitous changes from IPv4.