Many believe that warnings about the perils of running out of IPV4 addresses can safely be ignored–that like the Y2K machinations of the last century, they are much ado about nothing. After all, you ...

The first thing you need to know is … don’t panic. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be nothing like the prospect of Y2K in 1998-1999. However, it is a migration issue that you need to keep up to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “automatic” tunneling, hybrid IPv4/IPv6 addresses are created by extending 32-bit IPv4 addresses to 128 bits by adding leading zeros. IPv6 packets are encapsulated within IPv4 headers, so that one ...

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

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 ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

As hundreds of regional communications service providers rush to deploy broadband and add thousands of new subscribers to their networks, they face a long list of tasks and budget items to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was thinking about the problem of using legacy IPv4-only apps with IPv6, and I got to thinking about how programs like stunnel and ssh can do a trick where they can either open a local port that ...