Recently, the Internet Engineering Task Force, also known as IETF, published a new set of standards: RFC 8064 or "Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers." The new standard formally ...
At last, a small set of unicast addresses have been defined for special use. They do not carry a scope, so they are discussed independently of the other unicast addresses. Two basic addresses carry ...
IPv4 addresses are essentially fully depleted. They have been for years, which means ISPs and other service providers have long been pushing cheaper IPv6 addresses to help the web continue expanding, ...
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 ...
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 ...
IPv6 represents an evolutionary step for IP. Despite building upon IPv4 and the experience gained operating IPv4 networks, IPv6 has its own idiosyncrasies and unique functionality implementations. For ...