IPv4 has a pretty long history, and despite signals suggesting that its impending replacement would become the norm any day now from the early 2010s, it's still sticking around.

IPv4 has been on life support for years on account of its 4.3 billion address limit, leading to the advent of IPv6 with its 128-bit address space. With that said, ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don… ...

IPv4 stands for Internet Protocol version 4; it was first introduced by the U.S. government in 1983 in its Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).The protocol succeeds TCL and is ...

IPv4/IPv6 co-existence can take one of three forms.. One is dual stack, where your network hardware runs IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. Next is when you "tunnel" one protocol within another.

IPv4 Address Sharing. One idea that I have thought of before is the idea of performing even greater address sharing techniques. What if your device only had an IPv4 address when it had something ...

IPv4 addresses are set to finally run out in about a month’s time, leaving IPv6 deployment as the only viable solution for Internet growth over the long term. In October, the RIPE NCC – as the ...

IPv4 addresses consist of 32 bits, meaning there are a limited number of possible addresses – about 4.3 billion. As businesses and other organizations expand their operations, ...

IPv6 has been in the works since 1998 to address the shortfall of IP addresses available under Ipv4, yet despite its efficiency and security advantages, adoption is still slow.

Although the current industry norm is IPv4, this form of IP address is being slowly replaced with the latest version of the Internet protocol. However, before shifting to IPv6 completely, it’s ...

“Tunnels provide vital connectivity between IPv4 and IPv6 components or enable partial IPv6 in parts of your network still based on IPv4, but they can also introduce security risks,” the firm says.

A market for IPv4 addresses is coming with or without the assistance of the official registries. The economic forces are too strong to resist. If the registries embrace the trend now, ...