Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

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 ...

Recently, Professor Li Xing, deputy director of CERNET Network Center and from the Department of Electronic Engineering at ...

One of the vexing things about IP Security (IPSec) VPNs is network address translation (NAT); that is, converting private IP addresses to public ones when traffic crosses a firewall so Internet ...

IP address space is becoming scarce under IPv4, the main Internet communications protocol. Growing demand for Internet-enabled devices requires more space for growth. Wireless carriers would like to ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

For any identity wonks out there, a tipping point is likely to be reached in 2025: nearly 50% of online (aka Google) users have IPv6 availability today, and the numbers continue to climb. This is good ...

Researcher Anagogistis reported on September 17 via their blog that PureVPN's Linux app leaked IPv6 traffic in certain conditions and reset firewall rules without restoring them afterward – the issue ...