I get asked a lot in the comments section "Why should I use IPv6 in my homelab"? And it's a valid question, IPv4 being the norm in so many networking tutorials and classes, what advantages are there really to v6 anyway?
Well today, I'm going to explain a hypothetical setup with multiple services sharing a single public IPv4, the NAT "solutions" that the industry has moved to for dealing with the IPv4 exhaustion problem, and how the end-to-end principle of IPv6 solves all of these issues easily.
Of course, I'm focused on homelab users, but expanding this to small or medium businesses, the impact of properly routing traffic for your internal and external users can't be underestimated.
Hopefully in the future I can expand this with a setup guide on the IPv4 compatibility reverse proxy, but for now enjoy this explanation of the benefits of moving your infrastructure to V6!
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