I ended my post on IPv6 address design saying I would follow up by showing you a few simple tricks for working with hexadecimal numbers. Then the long-predicted depletion of the IANA pool of IPv4 ...

Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 cloud computers. When you fire up an EC2 virtual machine, you get an IPv6 address like this.

I encountered a funny situation this past week while deploying IPv6 on a tunnel interface. I realized that when you use 10 for the most significant digits in an IPv6 address it does not mean that is ...

In my past two columns I’ve talked about why implementing IPv6 on your network is a good idea, and delved deep into the IPv6 header. I’ll now conclude this series with a detailed look at IPv6 ...

The IPv4 global address is exhaustedIP address exhaustion problemAs a next-generation protocol to deal withIPv6There is, but the notation method changes from decimal to hexadecimal, the address ...

Ok, here we go. I'm trying to wrap my head around a transition plan for IPv6 on our LAN. We've been given a /48 from our ISP, which seems to be the standard way to do this stuff. From what I've been ...