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 ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note that it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The IPv6 movement has been ...

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 ...

The slow move to IPv6 has crept past another milestone, with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) stating on Monday that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses have been allocated. "As a result, we ...

Internet Protocol (IP) is the foundation of the internet, enabling communication between devices across the globe. Without an IP address, the Internet will simply not work because the data will not ...

On Feb. 3, 2011, the central pool of available IPv4 addresses managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was depleted when each Regional Internet Registry (RIR) received its last IPv4 ...

This past week, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that issues IP addresses issued the last 5 blocks of public IP addresses, thus starting a firestorm of news stories on the Internet that ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

Users of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) networks, beware man-in-the-middle attacks. That's because such networks can be exploited using capabilities built into IPv6, the next-generation standard ...

It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks. There are no more IPv4 addresses left to allocate, after APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the ...