A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

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 ...

The switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is a hot topic on TechRepublic. If you’re still unsure what this change really means, stay tuned. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shares answers from industry experts ...

IPv6 is the “new” way to connect to the Internet. For years we’ve been using version 4 of the Internet Protocol, but have since run out of IP addresses, which are your business computers’ unique ...

It’s only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? I’m betting not, and that you probably ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Federal ...

For once, this article is not about security but rather on IPv6 for residential subscribers and their contract to their ISP. As I see more and more residential ISP moving to IPv6, most of them seem to ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t have ...

When the Internet Engineering Task Force finalized the IPv6 standard, experts thought the transition from IPv4 would be relatively smooth — similar to an operating system upgrade — but that's not the ...

So, I'm switching over from cable internet (which supports ipv6) to fiber (Ting) which only has ipv4 support. With AWS now charging for all public ipv4 addresses used, I'm thinking about switching my ...