Geoff Huston questions the goal of completely replacing IPv4 with IPv6. Thanks to CDNs and mobile traffic, address scarcity is no longer a major problem. If you talk to networkers about IPv6, there is ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

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 ...

BERLIN, GERMANY: Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new internet address standards might change the way they get online. Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the IPv4 ...

A rapid growth of IP-based networks and services created the vast collection of resources. At the same time, advances in design of mobile electronic devices allowed them to reach utility level ...

TCP/IP protocols are used to send and receive data, voice and video data grams or packets over the internet. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is version four of the Internet Protocol, which is the ...

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 ...

Michael Fry receives funding from ARC. If you’re the sort of person who relies on the internet every day, you’ll maybe have twitched slightly on hearing rumours that the world is running out of ...