In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

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" ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...

Migration has been gradual, but the move to IPv6 could speed up with IPv4 addresses running out The argument about how best to upgrade the Internet’s main communications protocol raged in the Internet ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

Networking, whether on internal networks or across the Internet, was set up to use the Internet Protocol for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. It's essentially the addressing layer for the ...

1,370 million IPv4 addresses were used up this past decade. We have 722 million left, so the bottom of the pool is in sight. There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, ...

GUEST OPINION: The realm of the Internet has been expanding ever since its inception. With the recent boost in digitalization, the demand for internet resources has been increasing rapidly. This has ...

The various Internet management groups made it official this morning. We're now out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet address blocks. The final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given ...