It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 ...

It received any ND message from that address. It received an RA with this prefix in the prefix information option. It received a redirect message with a target equal to that address. The algorithm ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...

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 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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...

Traditional NAT, as discussed in the previous article, has been used for fifteen or so years to enable the sharing of a small number of public IPv4 addresses by a larger number of privately-addressed ...

Whether your organization has deployed IPv6 or not, you may end up troubleshooting IPv6-related issues as other nodes on the Internet move to dual-protocol connectivity. We need to consider how the ...