A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

It’s not always a straightforward matter to extend IPv4 tools to manage dual-stack IPv4-IPv6 networks. In this blog we’ll look at network device management tasks within the “FCAPS” model framework to ...

For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the ‘Net’s current addressing scheme — known as IPv4 — to handle the network-of-network’s explosive growth.

Business IT managers be forewarned: Implementing networks with the emerging Internet Protocol Version 6 standard will take substantial preparation, including training developers and IPv6 ...

Recently, there was a Mastodon post from [nixCraft] challenging people to drop their NAT routers for the month of November and use only IPv6. What would it be like to experience “No NAT November?” ...

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is gaining in importance because IPv4 has run out of addresses. IPv4’s 32-bit address just isn’t long enough. IPv6, with its 128-bit address field, will provide ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

We're trying to deploy a small set of devices within a client's network. Stuff isn't working. After some back-and-forth with their network team, we find out that the subnet that they've allocated is ...

Apple in an announcement Wednesday reminded developers of an upcoming change to App Store policy that requires all iOS apps include support for IPv6-only networking. Come June 1, all submissions to ...

Many popular online services can already be reached by IPv6 - the net's newest addressing system BT has announced that by the end of 2016 its entire network will be able to use IPv6 - the next version ...