IPv6 Basics
By Sandra Henry-Stocker
IPv6 is coming. It's coming slowly, due to technologies like NAT and the advent of private address spaces like 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 that have provided breathing room for IPv4 in spite of the rapidly depleting IPv4 address space. Still, it is coming. And it's different enough from IPv4 that preparing for its arrival is a very good idea. In this week's column, we'll take a look at some of the fundamental differences between the two protocols and see what IPv6 addresses look like.
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IPv6 is coming. It's coming slowly, due to technologies like NAT and the advent of private address spaces like 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 that have provided breathing room for IPv4 in spite of the rapidly depleting IPv4 address space. Still, it is coming. And it's different enough from IPv4 that preparing for its arrival is a very good idea. In this week's column, we'll take a look at some of the fundamental differences between the two protocols and see what IPv6 addresses look like.
Read the full article here
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