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IPv6 Buzz 076: Even More Listener Questions!

Packet Pushers

What are the considerations when deploying IPv6 on a global network with lots of firewalls? Are there caveats to using IPv6 Global Unicast Addresses (GUAs)? What are the considerations when deploying IPv6 on a global network with lots of firewalls? Are there caveats to using IPv6 Global Unicast Addresses (GUAs)?

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How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta

Engineering at Meta

We implemented a scalable PTPv2 unicast PTP server in Go, which we named ptp4u , and open-sourced it on GitHub. Because ptp4u runs as a process on a Linux machine, we automatically get all the benefits, like IPv6 support, firewall, etc.,