A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

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 ...

Today, the last current-generation Internet addresses were divvied up at the highest level. Here's a look at what happens next in rebuilding the Net with the newer IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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 ...

Q: A friend told me that my computer is not IPv6 compatible. What does this mean? A: An internet protocol address identifies a specific piece of hardware on a network. Each device must have one unique ...

Q: You said you would provide your readers with a way to test their computer equipment for IPv6 readiness. What does this entail? A: Last week, I covered the basics ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With cyberspace almost full, Samantha Amjadali finds out it's going to take half a trillion dollars to avoid a global squeeze. IPV6. It ...