Many in the industry realize that as we migrate to IPv6 there will be a day when IPv4 is not needed anymore. However, that transition seems daunting and may take decades. In the meantime, ...

The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized ...

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 ...

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 ...

It wasn't that long ago that most companies were still refusing to move from the Internet's ancient IPv4 networking protocol. IPv6 was slowly catching on, but the vast majority of Internet users were ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...

We knew the day when we ran out of IPv4 addresses was coming. Now, we're in the last days. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit group that manages Internet addresses for ...

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 ...