With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone. Since the IANA IPv6 worldwide deployment announcement in ...

I encountered a funny situation this past week while deploying IPv6 on a tunnel interface. I realized that when you use 10 for the most significant digits in an IPv6 address it does not mean that is ...

IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol (IP) for identification and location of computers on networks and Internet traffic routing. I’ve been waiting for it now for years but nothing ever seems to happen. I ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

In my past two columns I’ve talked about why implementing IPv6 on your network is a good idea, and delved deep into the IPv6 header. I’ll now conclude this series with a detailed look at IPv6 ...

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 ...

Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

A lot of coverage of IPv6 over the past few years gives the impression that you need to switch to IPv6 soon. That’s not necessarily the case, though, especially for a consumer or a small business.