More Internet traffic is expected to be carried via tunnels as the Internet infrastructure migrates from IPv4, the current version of the Internet protocol, to the long-anticipated upgrade known as ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

If all the excitement about IPv6 has finally convinced you to take a serious look at what’s involved in the transition, you’ll want to start with this framework. After all, transitioning to IPv6 can ...

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover Active Directory support for IPv6. This is the fourth technical blog post on configuring IPv6 in a Windows networking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snail's pace, there's no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out. [Editor’s note: ...

The IPv6 header doesn't look much like its IPv4 cousin, except for the Version and Priority fields and the source and destination addresses, which are larger in IPv6 (see Fig. A). Changes are made for ...