Key features in StarlingX 10.0 include IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support, a unified software management framework, and a new tool for collecting data about hardware usage in the platform. The Open ...

The slow move to IPv6 has crept past another milestone, with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) stating on Monday that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses have been allocated. "As a result, we ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is gaining in importance because IPv4 has run out of addresses. IPv4’s 32-bit address just isn’t long enough. IPv6, with its 128-bit address field, will provide ...

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, ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

While you've been asleep in your beds with visions of iPad 2s dancing in your heads, network administrators have been wide awake getting ready for World IPv6 Day. And, what's that? As the The Internet ...

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 ...