Like a dangerous intersection that has existed for years, sometimes it takes a death or other tragic warning to spur people to action. Such a warning came earlier this year, when the last of the ...

IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. Here’s what you need to know about IPv6. IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the ...

About to embark on deploying IPv6? First, you need to know some key differences in IPv6 address formats. Don’t be deterred by the intimidating appearance of those long IP version 6 (IPv6) addresses.

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 ...

Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snail’s pace, there’s no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out. [Editor’s note: ...