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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...

Miss Parts I and II? No need to search or stress–they're right here:Part I Part II. IPv6 Packet Format br>The structure of the IP packet header was modified in IPv6. These changes reflect some of the ...

As we reported back in July, the Internet Engineering Task Force has been thinking about ways to make the IPv4 world talk to the (future) IPv6 world. This way, we don't all have to upgrade at the same ...

Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

But if an IPv6 host sends a packet to another IPv6 host over the Internet, there’s no way to ensure that it won’t be routed through an IPv4 network. One way to make that work is via IP tunneling, ...

First the good news. According to Google’s statistics, on December 26, the world reached 9.98 percent IPv6 deployment, up from just under 6 percent a year earlier. Google measures IPv6 deployment by ...

Around 35 years ago, Vint Cerf at and Bob Kahn at Arpa were designing a set of networking standards that were to become TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the underlying ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...