When the IPv4 address pool was depleted in 2011, some of the most impacted companies were internet service providers (ISPs) that needed these IPv4 addresses to grow their businesses. Less impacted, at ...

Network Address Translator, or simply called NAT, is an important part of the device between your LAN and the Internet. It could be located in the router you use to connect the local network to the ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

The format of an IP address in the traditional 32-bit version of the IP protocol. For the foreseeable future, IPv4 will co-exist with the newer IPv6 version (see IPv6). IPv4 uses a "dotted decimal" ...

Many in the industry realize that as we migrate to IPv6 there will be a day when IPv4 is not needed anymore. However, that transition seems daunting and may take decades. In the meantime, ...

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 ...

Discussion around the coming transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has heated up over the past year. Here’s what you need to know. Mike Hannah is product development manager, Ethernet & Infrastructure, for ...

It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks. There are no more IPv4 addresses left to allocate, after APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the ...