I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...
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 ...
Thomas Edison, in 1882, opened a power station on Pearl Street in New York city to supply the densely populated Manhattan island with DC power [1]. DC was the logical power distribution standard at ...
This past week, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that issues IP addresses issued the last 5 blocks of public IP addresses, thus starting a firestorm of news stories on the Internet that ...
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 slow move to IPv6 has crept past another milestone, with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) stating on Monday that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses have been allocated. "As a result, we ...
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 ...
eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The last IP address blocks in the IPv4 namespace will be ...
On Feb. 3, 2011, the central pool of available IPv4 addresses managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was depleted when each Regional Internet Registry (RIR) received its last IPv4 ...