even through they may be connecting to an older IPv4 WiFi Hotspot or network connection. My next blog post will be titled “Best Practices at Configuring Applications for IPv6” where I’m ...

My college prof told me this in 1995, and he’s still right. Not in our career lifetime. IPv6 will take off during the year of the Linux desktop. You’ll pull IPv4 from my cold, dead hands ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don ...

Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will explain the difference between these two at the primary level. Everyone knows ...

IPv4 addresses are set to finally run out in about a month’s time, leaving IPv6 deployment as the only viable solution for Internet growth over the long term. In October, the RIPE NCC – as the ...

It’s no news that the Internet, which currently runs on internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), has a limited number of IP addresses available, and has already fallen short to suffice the needs of ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...