If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t have ...

The distribution of IP addresses has always occurred in a somewhat socialist manner: "to each according to his needs." But those days are drawing to an end now. So far in 2012 within the North ...

The slow move to IPv6 has crept past another milestone, with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) stating on Monday that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses have been allocated. "As a result, we ...

The time is ripe for your business to migrate to IPv6, but you need to keep your new connections safe. Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) is the way that internet communication will be handled for ...

MIT is selling half of its 16 million valuable IPv4 addresses – an increasingly scarce stash it has held since the birth of the Internet. While details of the sale have not been made public, at least ...

North America has finally run out of new addresses based on IPv4, the numbering system that got the Internet where it is today but which is running out of space for the coming era of networking. The ...

It’s been six years since the official launch of IPv6 on “World IPv6” day in 2012, but the newest version of the Internet Protocol still doesn’t account for the majority of online traffic, according ...

Malgré l'épuisement de l'IPv4 en 2011, sa persistance s'explique par des solutions temporaires et un coût de migration élevé. La transition vers l'IPv6 est ralentie par des contraintes techniques et ...

Today is the day IPv6 finally goes live. For as long as there has been an Internet IPv4 has been synonymous with IP and nobody really stopped to think about which version of the protocol it was. But ...

In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...