If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but 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 ...
In the world of networking, most people are familiar with IPv4. These numerical labels, like 192.168.2.1, have been used to identify devices for decades and have been the primary addressing scheme ...
The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...
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 ...
IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...
At last month's CanSecWest conference, Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard showed that nearly all routers and the OSes from the BSD family (including Mac OS X) process the routing header type 0 (RH0) ...
Traditional NAT, as discussed in the previous article, has been used for fifteen or so years to enable the sharing of a small number of public IPv4 addresses by a larger number of privately-addressed ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...