The emphasis here is on the IPv6 header and address, and how IPv6 will affect router operation. IPv6 has been around since about 1995, but pressure to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is mostly recent.

Of course to benefit from the larger IPv6 address space, it's necessary to actually migrate from the existing IPv4 to the new IPv6. That part has been sorely lacking in the 15 or so years since ...

Yet as the internet exploded in the 1990s and 2000s, experts predicted those addresses would soon run out. A new protocol, IPv6, was devised and hailed as the solution, with exhaustion of IPv4 ...

I’ll now conclude this series with a detailed look at IPv6 addressing conventions. IPv4 addresses, which use dotted decimal notation, are fairly easy to remember. With a maximum of four octets ...

For the most part, the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased, because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has ...

This article discusses some of the factors you should consider when creating an IPv6 address design. This is Not IPv4 Most network architects are too young to remember when IPv4 address space was ...

All are assigned static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. One of the Server 2008 SP2 boxes also runs DHCPv4 and 6. DNS works just fine. If I ping by name, I am typically returned the IPv6 address of that ...

The current IPv4 naming scheme was developed in the 1970s and had capacity for 4.3 billion addresses, which were grouped into 255 blocks of 16 million addresses each. The replacement scheme, IPv6 ...

IPv6 addresses add an additional level of complexity ... In contrast, the number of IPv4 allocations is expected to grow by only 8 percent in 2010. Small studies by companies like Arbor Networks ...

When it comes to personal networks, simplicity is key, and the idea of transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 addresses seems crazy. However, with the increasing number of ‘smart’ devices ...