I just got up and running with IPv6 on my Comcast internet connection. However I'm only able to grab a single /64 prefix currently. I've heard that you can grab as many /64s "as you can eat" from ...

Stateless address autoconfiguration, or SLAAC, is the mandatory and most common mechanism used to automatically configure IPv6 networks. In some network IPv6 renumbering scenarios, however, hosts ...

An IPv6 address is a 128-bit alphanumeric value that identifies an endpoint device in an Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) network. IPv6 is the successor to a previous addressing infrastructure, IPv4 ...

I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. Today, and it may have been going for some time, because it's been a little while since I've checked my IPv6 connectivity, on Spectrum, I can no longer use ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

The time for IPv4 to IPv6 transition has finally arrived after more than a decade of forewarning. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last freely available ...

Have you learned to think and dream in hex yet? That is what you are going to have to look forward to as we transition to using IPv6. Because we will be working in hexadecimal numbers we may need a ...

Cierra is a contributing writer at XDA, with an extensive background in home networking, ISPs, and routers, and over five years of professional writing experience. Her work has been featured on CNET, ...

Until recently, IPv6 was perpetually on my "deal with it later" list. I'm sure it's the same story for many home lab enthusiasts. We all know IPv6 exists, and that IPv4 is living on borrowed time, ...