IPv6 is coming. It’s coming slowly, due to technologies like NAT and the advent of private address spaces like 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 that have provided breathing room for IPv4 in spite of the ...

Internet protocol is a term that many have heard but most have no idea what it means or even represents. There are likely many who know what IP stands for but don’t know what it actually does. From ...

The IPv6 header doesn't look much like its IPv4 cousin, except for the Version and Priority fields and the source and destination addresses, which are larger in IPv6 (see Fig. A). Changes are made for ...

Learning IPv6 addressing requires just a little reading and some memorization of the various types of addresses. The coexistence topic requires a basic knowledge of tunneling, which is also covered ...

When it comes to IPv6 support, consumer home networking gear lags far behind other devices, like enterprise equipment and PC operating systems. Most devices certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft of a new publication that will help secure IPv6 networks as they are being deployed. The Special Publication (SP) number ...

Recently, the IPv6 Ready Logo Committee officially launched the IPv6 Ready SRv6 Logo Gold Certification Program. As a core ...

IPv6 is coming! IPv6 is coming! Unfortunately, nobody is hanging lanterns in the church tower to tell our Paul Revere how or when Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) will arrive. Eventually, IPv6 will ...