It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

Global Unicast Addressing, Routing, and Subnetting: This section introduces the concepts behind unicast IPv6 addresses, IPv6 routing, and subnetting using IPv6, all in comparison to IPv4. IPv6 ...

The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

It's time to elevate your scraping game. Treat IPv4 and IPv6 as equals to capture the full spectrum of web audiences and ...

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 ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

Has anyone seen this before?: <BR><BR>Short version: Running "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding" seems to blow away my routing table: The 'good' (i.e ...

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 ...

In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...