This excerpt of a paper published by IEEE discusses how recent developments make it possible, pragmatic, and efficient to use the IPv6 protocol for low-power multihop wireless networks. Figure 1: ...

When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

One glaring problem with IPv4 is that it supports only 4.2 billion possible addresses while, by some estimates, the number of internet-connected devices is expected to grow to 28.5 billion by 2022.

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The IPv6 protocol affects the security of your network even if you haven't deployed it internally. Here are the most important points every security team needs to understand about the protocol. If you ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

You're so close to creating your own IPv6-ready lab -- now InfoWorld's Matt Prigge takes you through the final steps Last week, we took a look at how to make the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 using ...