A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...

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 ...

The federal government has commenced initiatives to migrate its Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to (IPv6) in line with the standard used globally to enhance cybersecurity and guarantee the ...

Routers just rely on routing protocols (and routing tables) to make proper next-hop determinations. Unlike IPv4, a default gateway does not have to be defined on an IPv6 host. The procedure for a host ...

The benefits of IPv6 over IPv4 are many, but to reap them enterprises need to enable their networks to support the newer protocol, starting with Wi-Fi upgrades. The business advantages of IPv6 are ...