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by derefr 4595 days ago
> Ironically, IPv6 "just works" totally out of the box, but IPv4 does not.

Not very ironic at all. IPv6's autoconfiguration (through link-local addresses, the Neighbor-Discovery Protocol, etc.) comes from engineers with decades of experience (and frustration) in managing ISP-sized netblocks.