It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn’t. In 1981, IPv4’s 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for some time have habits that ...

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 ...

A 24-hour test last week of a next-generation Internet went well. That could help IPv6 adoption more than the scarier reality that the world is running out of IPv4 addresses. Reassured by a relatively ...

IPv4 addresses are essentially fully depleted. They have been for years, which means ISPs and other service providers have long been pushing cheaper IPv6 addresses to help the web continue expanding, ...

Today, the last current-generation Internet addresses were divvied up at the highest level. Here's a look at what happens next in rebuilding the Net with the newer IPv6. Today is the beginning of the ...

Until recently, IPv6 was perpetually on my "deal with it later" list. I'm sure it's the same story for many home lab enthusiasts. We all know IPv6 exists, and that IPv4 is living on borrowed time, ...

When you're browsing online, you probably don't pay close attention to the URLs in the address bar of your browser, much less the IP addresses of the sites you're visiting or your own internet ...

A lot of coverage of IPv6 over the past few years gives the impression that you need to switch to IPv6 soon. That’s not necessarily the case, though, especially for a consumer or a small business.