With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone. Since the IANA IPv6 worldwide deployment announcement in ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about IPv6 is that it exposes your devices directly to the internet. Your router’s firewall ...

In my past two columns I’ve talked about why implementing IPv6 on your network is a good idea, and delved deep into the IPv6 header. I’ll now conclude this series with a detailed look at IPv6 ...

IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol (IP) for identification and location of computers on networks and Internet traffic routing. I’ve been waiting for it now for years but nothing ever seems to happen. I ...

IPv6 has long suffered from the perception that it is a good solution looking for a problem to solve. The Social Security Administration’s hands-on experience with this upgrade to the Internet’s main ...

In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network. Google network engineer Irena Nikolova discussed the ...

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 ...

I set up WOL on my kid's computers to make my life easier when they need maintenance, and found kind of a weird problem. I'm using AquilaWOL for GUI ease-of-use, and discovered that the host display ...

An IPv6-based network linking 25 universities in 20 cities across China began operating on Saturday. The China Education and Research Network Information Center (CERNIC) announced the launch of the ...