Around 35 years ago, Vint Cerf at and Bob Kahn at Arpa were designing a set of networking standards that were to become TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the underlying ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...

At last month's CanSecWest conference, Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard showed that nearly all routers and the OSes from the BSD family (including Mac OS X) process the routing header type 0 (RH0) ...

Two months ago, we published Everything you need to know about IPv6, telling you the following about firewalling IPv6 in relationship to the Network Address Translation that is common in today's IPv4 ...

Ready or not, IPv6 is finally visible on the horizon... And researchers are already finding major security problems with it. IPv6, which is supported in some of the latest OSes and network devices, is ...

IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...

You may have IPv6 capabilities on your mobile phone and not even realize it. It has become apparent in 2008 that several mobile phone providers in the U.S. have started to include IPv6 capabilities in ...

Despite the advantages of IPv6, corporate users have resolutely avoided upgrading to it. But changes in the Net may soon force them to, as everything from handhelds to cell phones to refrigerators ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...