Anonymous
10/16/2025, 4:43:16 PM
No.106908863
>>106908750
Have you worked in the medical field at all?
They literally do that. You can't send medical documents via email, but fax is absolutely A OK. It's ass backwards, but that's literally part of HIPAA.
>>106908643
Sure, you could abstract it away and put it on the router, but that's just one more thing that needs to be correctly updated. In a shop where you have dozens of machines with static IPs being added/removed every month, you're just adding points of failure. Believe me, I wish there was a sensible solution that applied to everything we have to deal with, but there just isn't. It was enough of a nightmare for my predecessor to even get the network organized reasonably well. Once that got setup and we stopped having outages the suits were on board with aggressive network upgrades, but getting over that first hurdle took 4 years of back and forth arguing.
Now imagine that bureaucracy in a company the size of Frontier, and you'll start to understand why IPv6 isn't making any progress. Even the people that genuinely want it have no idea how the fuck to even begin implementing it.
Have you worked in the medical field at all?
They literally do that. You can't send medical documents via email, but fax is absolutely A OK. It's ass backwards, but that's literally part of HIPAA.
>>106908643
Sure, you could abstract it away and put it on the router, but that's just one more thing that needs to be correctly updated. In a shop where you have dozens of machines with static IPs being added/removed every month, you're just adding points of failure. Believe me, I wish there was a sensible solution that applied to everything we have to deal with, but there just isn't. It was enough of a nightmare for my predecessor to even get the network organized reasonably well. Once that got setup and we stopped having outages the suits were on board with aggressive network upgrades, but getting over that first hurdle took 4 years of back and forth arguing.
Now imagine that bureaucracy in a company the size of Frontier, and you'll start to understand why IPv6 isn't making any progress. Even the people that genuinely want it have no idea how the fuck to even begin implementing it.