Miss Parts I and II? No need to search or stress–they're right here:Part I Part II. IPv6 Packet Format br>The structure of the IP packet header was modified in IPv6. These changes reflect some of the ...

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 ...

However, before shifting to IPv6 completely, it’s important to look at the main differences between IPv4 and IPv6. Despite both being used to identify machines connected to a network, there is ...

The adoption and overall success of a new global technology is often driven by a number of factors, such as user acceptance, infrastructure readiness or even accessibility. Irrespective of whether the ...

Check out Denise Donohue’s blog. More Cisco Press book chapters from new and classic Cisco Press books. Of these, many capabilities have been backported to IPv4. The primary adoption of IPv6 will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

The current version of the IP protocol, IPv4, has proved to be robust, easily implemented, interoperable and has stood the test of scaling to the size of today's Internet, most of which uses IPv4—now ...

It’s no news that the Internet, which currently runs on internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), has a limited number of IP addresses available, and has already fallen short to suffice the needs of ...