Geoff Huston questions the goal of completely replacing IPv4 with IPv6. Thanks to CDNs and mobile traffic, address scarcity is no longer a major problem. If you talk to networkers about IPv6, there is ...

With many organisations moving to IPv6, there could be monitoring issues and consequences for those that still use IPv4 ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk ...

In the world of networking, most people are familiar with IPv4. These numerical labels, like 192.168.2.1, have been used to identify devices for decades and have been the primary addressing scheme ...

Internet pioneer Huston questions the introduction of IPv6, which has provoked controversial reactions. Gert Döring weighs up pros & cons and advises: go for it Gert Döring has been working with IPv6 ...

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

A rapid growth of IP-based networks and services created the vast collection of resources. At the same time, advances in design of mobile electronic devices allowed them to reach utility level ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...