IPv6 represents an evolutionary step for IP. Despite building upon IPv4 and the experience gained operating IPv4 networks, IPv6 has its own idiosyncrasies and unique functionality implementations. For ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

This is the first of many technical blog posts I’m going to post on IPv6 architecture and implementation for a Microsoft Windows-based environment. I started off with a basic introduction of the IPv4 ...

IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...