Friday I posed an open-ended IPv6 addressing question. Today I’ll start working towards the solution – but more importantly, I want to find out whether you personally, if you were preparing for the ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

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 ...

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover what we’ve found to be a well organized and managed process of getting from an IPv4 environment to an IPv6 environment, effectively putting the chicken ...

As I'm ramping up with IPv6 here I keep running into plenty of "how should this be done?" moments. End user subnets are easy, enable SLAAC, some DHCPv6 for DNS and let the hosts pick their own ...

Customers noticed when BT tinkered with its network to test IPv6 equipment BT has started trials of the next version of the net's addressing scheme known as IP version 6. The global addressing system ...

The format of an IP address in the newer 128-bit version of the IP protocol. Unlike IPv4's four sets of numbers separated by dots, IP addresses in IPv6 are represented as eight sets of four ...

D-Link Inc. recently released the DGS-3612G, an xStack switch product the company said will support the emergent Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) standard. The Taiwan-based networking provider ...

BT has started trials of the next version of the net's addressing scheme known as IP version 6. The global addressing system needs to be updated because the older scheme, IPv4, is running out of space ...

The global addressing system needs to be updated because the older scheme, IPv4, is running out of space. The small-scale trial involves BT staff being switched to a network that runs only on IPv6 ...