As security people, we all know that having too many options is always a bad thing: simple setup is often more secured than a complex setup. And, when it comes to IPv6, there are THREE ways to ...

Microsoft has been forced to start using its global stock of IPv4 addresses to keep its Azure cloud service afloat in the U.S., highlighting the growing importance of making the shift to IP version 6.

Have you learned to think and dream in hex yet? That is what you are going to have to look forward to as we transition to using IPv6. Because we will be working in hexadecimal numbers we may need a ...

IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, the Internet addressing protocol which has been used for many years since the early days of the Internet. When the Internet was first founded, it was established as a ...

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 ...

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 ...