Ready or not, IPv6 is finally visible on the horizon... And researchers are already finding major security problems with it. IPv6, which is supported in some of the latest OSes and network devices, is ...

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 ...

To appreciate all the extra functionality and other improvements, Alan Clark takes a look inside to see what makes IPv6 tick. To achieve greater routing efficiency, the IPv6 header has undergonean ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) engineers, reacting with unusual speed, have moved to address a serious security lapse in IPv6 before it becomes too widespread. The bug, involving Type 0 ...

IPv6 solves Internet scaling challenges, provides a flexible transition mechanism for the current Internet, and meets the needs of such new markets as mobile personal computing devices, networked ...

Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces ...

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 ...

IPv6 was designed to be an evolutionary step from IPv4. It was not a design goal to take a radical step away from IPv4. Functions that work in IPv4 were maintained in IPv6, and those that didn't work ...