EDN

IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing – Part 2: The network/host boundary and the IPv4 address

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 ...
EDN

IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing – Part 3: The IPv6 address

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 ...
Electronic Design

What's The Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6?

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 ...
Ars Technica

There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly

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 ...
Network World

I Remember When I Used a Public IPv4 Address

I don’t know about you, but it has been a long time since my laptop was assigned a public IPv4 address. Most of the time my laptop has a private RFC1918 IPv4 address. Rarely does my computer have a ...