Editor’s note: An editing error mischaracterized how to test IPv6 capability from a network. We have removed that reference, and we regret the error. The Internet ...

So you heard about something called IPv6 and it sounds like it should be important to you somehow. After all, people are saying that the Internet is full and doomed without this mysterious IPv6 thing.

At the core of all modern internet technology is a complex system of routing information from one point to another. This routing system operates largely in the background of most technology ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

In early 2019, as Technology Co-Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, I participated in intensive policy discussions with federal cybersecurity leadership about a critical national security imperative ...

Proponents of IPv6 have made dire predictions about the fate of the Internet if usage of IPv6 doesn't rise dramatically in the next few years During the past six months, the Internet engineering ...

The co-authors of Global IPv6 Strategies were the guests for a live Network World chat where they discussed all things IPv6. Bechtel’s Fred Wettling, ArchRock’s Patrick Grossetete, and Cisco’s Ciprian ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...

Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are ...