It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

Many believe that warnings about the perils of running out of IPV4 addresses can safely be ignored–that like the Y2K machinations of the last century, they are much ado about nothing. After all, you ...

The IPv6 transition in your organization, more likely than not, involves bringing IPv6 into a mix that also includes IPv4. Here’s a look at what that means and how to make it work. The original title ...

一句话概括本文：IPv6的速度比IPv4快约39%（仅限本地！）。 为了搞清楚如题所示的问题，我们决定分析30天内一系列监控代理收集的匿名数据。为了简单起见，我们只分析客户端到默认网关的往返时间（Round Trip Time，即RTT）。这段子路径并没有覆盖访问互联网 ...

01 November 2010 The awareness of the importance of the next generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) has been spread, but the actual IPv6 implementation in the business IT environment has been ...

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 ...

It’s no news that the Internet, which currently runs on internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), has a limited number of IP addresses available, and has already fallen short to suffice the needs of ...

大家听说过IPv5吗?他曾经也是个倍受期待的技术呢！ IPv5也被称为因特网流协议（Internet Stream Protocol），简称ST。它专为跨IP网络的面向连接的通信而设计，旨在支持语音和视频。 但是其32位地址方案与IPv4使用的方案相同，都会遇到IP地址枯竭的问题。因此，它 ...

广袤的世界中，人类通过语言、动作传递信息，相互交流。如同人与人之间相互交流一样，计算机之间的互联互通也需要共同 ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t have ...

Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...