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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At last month's CanSecWest conference, Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard showed that nearly all routers and the OSes from the BSD family (including Mac OS X) process the routing header type 0 (RH0) ...

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 ...

This document presents real-world data regarding the extent to which packets with IPv6 Extension Headers (EHs) are dropped in the Internet (as originally measured in August 2014 and later in June 2015 ...

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 ...

The world is running out of IP addresses. The current version of the Internet Protocol relies on unique addresses for each device that connects to a network. In the case of the Internet, public IP ...

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 ...