E nabling IPv6 on your home network might sound like an interesting idea, but in reality, you probably don’t need it. With the right configuration, your current IPv4 setup is ...

Addresses with different scopes allow for the proper isolation of hosts. Simplified rules for fragmentation make it easier to defend diverse networks with different network technologies.

The only thing remaining that holds back IPv6 deployment is the massive effort required for corporations to re-address millions of computers, routers and other Internet devices.

Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques.

New tools from EMC for network management include a product for finding, mapping and monitoring networking nodes in upcoming IPv6 settings.

As security people, we all know that having too many options is always a bad thing: simple setup is often more secured than a complex setup. And, when it comes to IPv6, there are THREE ways to ...

Internet provider Yayzi Broadband has this afternoon informed ISPreview that they've begun to deploy Internet Protocol v6 ...

Network address translation (NAT) and similar attempts to mitigate the address shortage have proved unreliable. Over the long term, the answer lies in IPv6, which replaces 32-bit IPv4 addresses with a ...

IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol (IP) for identification and location of computers on networks and Internet traffic routing. I’ve been waiting for it now for years but nothing ...

Windows Vista, which runs on parallel IPv6 and IPv4 protocol stacks, can create network performance problems when used with older routers.