We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

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 ...

We all know we're running out of IPv4, the old-style Internet Protocol (IP), addresses). If you're in the network business, you know you need to start switching over to IPv6 soon. What you may not ...

Qasim Lone, an employee of RIPE Labs, shows in an analysis that has so far gone largely unnoticed by the public that an IPv4 address range that has actually been reserved for decades is secretly being ...

A worldwide test into the next generation of internet addresses is nearly complete. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is designed to replace the dwindling pool of 4.3 billion unique identifiers in ...