Local link addresses are configured based on a network interface card’s media access control address, so DHCP might not be necessary in the IPv6 LAN. The downside is these addresses are easily spoofed ...

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 ...

For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the ‘Net’s current addressing scheme — known as IPv4 — to handle the network-of-network’s explosive growth.

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 ...

My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

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 ...

In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network. Google network engineer Irena Nikolova discussed the ...

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 ...

Today is World IPv6 Day. Don't worry, you don't need to send a card -- it's just a 24-hour test by Google, Facebook and many other websites of a new way of connecting to the Web. Richard Trenholm ...