Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC). In a Thursday ...

And it is wasteful. But the IPv6 address space assigned to most networks is so vast, you can afford a shocking level of waste in exchange for consistency, simplicity, scale, and efficiency.

IPv6 has been in the works since 1998 to address the shortfall of IP addresses available under Ipv4, yet despite its efficiency and security advantages, adoption is still slow.

IPv6 is the follow-up to IPv4, but the two are entirely different beasts. The biggest and most important difference between the two protocols is how IP addresses are written.

IPv6 will eventually replace IPv4, which was conceived during the early days of the internet. It only allows just over four billion unique IP addresses - the sequences of numbers used to identify ...

Huawei's allocation is a /17 block, so a mere subset of that. The entire IPv6 number space has 2128 addresses – over 340 undecillion, plus about 282 decillion and plenty of nonillions ...

The IPv6 address are 128 bits, s a /64 net will give you 2⁶⁴ addresses in each of your LAN. And your ISP should give you 256 of those LAN. And yes, just because you have a public address, ...

There are two main types of IP addresses IPv4 (IP version 4) and IPv6 (IP version 6). Introduced in 1983, the IPv4 (IP version 4) is the older and more widely used version, such as 192.168.0.1).