Have you learned to think and dream in hex yet? That is what you are going to have to look forward to as we transition to using IPv6. Because we will be working in hexadecimal numbers we may need a ...

There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

Apple recently released firmware version 7.6.3 for its line of Airport Extreme Wi-Fi base stations. Assuming the release notes are accurate, the update barely warrants a bump after the second decimal ...

Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

IPv6 is the successor to our current internet protocol, IPv4. It offers many new features, including a vastly increased address space (128 bits of address vs. IPv4's measly 32 bits), easier ...

IP version 6 is poised to revolutionize networking. Here's why you should care and what you need to do to get ready. The odds are good that you're aware Microsoft will soon release new server and host ...

Your router is doing NAT66 (getting an IPv6 address on its WAN interface, and configuring another IPv6 prefix range internally for your house) as well as NAT64 (getting v6 on WAN interface, doing v4 ...

The time for IPv4 to IPv6 transition has finally arrived after more than a decade of forewarning. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last freely available ...

Free software is freedom, and so is mobility. In an age of embedded devices, nomadic users and omnipresent wireless connectivity, augmenting the venerable Internet Protocol (IP) with movement ...