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 ...

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 ...

How to support transitional routing of IPv6 through IPv4 Configuring 6to4 and Teredo Configuring IP-HTTPS and Microsoft DirectAccess Understanding Tunnel Brokers This ...

The global transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has gained major traction, driven by the urgent need to accommodate a rapidly expanding number of internet-connected devices and the introduction of IPv6 ...

The world is running out of IPv4 addresses – the familiar 32-bit numerical addresses used to represent the identity of every Internet-connected device in the world. The African Network Information ...

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 ...

In hindsight, we reached peak IPv4 two years ago. The good news is that IPv6 is doing very well—but not nearly well enough. Is the IPv6 glass 1 percent full or 99 percent empty? "Hi, I'd like to sign ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

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 ...

近日，中办国办印发《推进互联网协议第六版（IPv6）规模部署行动计划》，加快推进基于IPv6的下一代互联网规模部署，计划指出到2018年末国内IPv6活跃用户数要达到2亿，2020年末达到5亿，2025年末中国IPv6规模要达到世界第一。 阿里云宣布，为了建立下一代互联网 ...