We're in the process of completely rearchitecting our web serving/email environment at a new datacenter, and I'm looking moving into the 21st century with IPv6. In our current environment, we have an ...

When it became clear that 32-bit IP addresses just wouldn't cut it for a growing Internet, the Internet Engineering Task Force did what its name suggests and created a new version of IP. IPv6 has so ...

Knowingly or not, enterprises employ IPv6 for many of their internet connections, and that means CASBs should support the protocol, too, in order to enforce policies on all customer traffic. Here's ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

The IPv6 transition in your organization, more likely than not, involves bringing IPv6 into a mix that also includes IPv4. Here’s a look at what that means and how to make it work. The original title ...

IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, the Internet addressing protocol which has been used for many years since the early days of the Internet. When the Internet was first founded, it was established as a ...

Discussion around the coming transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has heated up over the past year. Here’s what you need to know. Mike Hannah is product development manager, Ethernet & Infrastructure, for ...