IPv6 Adoption Accelerates as IPv4 Nears its Peak
We Only Know What We Can Measure
Security Vulnerability Scanning for IPv6 Networks
There are many topics that fall under the heading of “How is the IPv6 protocol that I am less familiar with different than the IPv4 protocol that I know very well?” By now, readers of the Infoblox IPv6 Center of Excellence community blog should be familiar with several of the major differences between IPv4 and […]
How Using a Hybrid-WAN May Change Your IPv6 Addressing Plan
Internet Edge IPv6 Deployment
IPv6 in the Data Center: Manual or Automatic Configuration?
IPv6 differs from IPv4 in a few key areas, perhaps most significantly in how IPv6 behaves on an Ethernet LAN. IPv6 has far more reliance on ICMPv6 and on multicast, whereas IPv4 uses broadcasts for most administrative LAN traffic like ARP. The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) (RFC 4861) process includes essential functions that IPv6-capable […]
Scott Hogg, GTRI CTO, Shares His IPv6 Security Expertise at Cisco Live 2016
GTRI’s Chief Technology Officer, Scott Hogg, will be a guest lecturer at a technical seminar on IPv6 at Cisco Live 2016, June 10-14 in Las Vegas. The seminar, “An Immersive Journey into IPv6,” will instruct attendees in IPv6 protocol basics, operational procedures, host operating system configurations, and more. Scott is presenting a two-hour module on […]
Network Speed: Is IPv6 Faster Than IPv4? (Part Two)
In the first part of this blog, we reviewed some recent studies on the performance of IPv6 compared with IPv4. Geoff Huston’s research concluded that IPv4 and IPv6 can be equivalent in many cases. Facebook’s Paul Saab concluded that their customers experience faster performance over native IPv6. Similar to the measurements of the amounts of […]
Network Speed: Is IPv6 Faster than IPv4? (Part One)
Can IPv6 actually be faster across the Internet than IPv4? Let’s find out.
How Does IPv6 Change the Number of Nodes on a Local Area Network?
As people start learning about and deploying IPv6, they start considering how IPv6 changes the way they design and deploy networks and systems. Based on the IPv6 Addressing Architecture (RFC 4291), the standard IPv6 prefix length for LANs is a /64 which provides an astronomically large number of possible host Interface Identifiers (IIDs). In IPv6, […]
Setting Up An IPv6 Lab At Home
Training is typically one of the early phases of an IPv6 adoption project. Everyone learning a new technology has to start somewhere and that typically means cracking open a book on the topic or leveraging an Internet search. Virtually all people in the IT department will need to learn about IPv6 to some extent. Some […]
All I Want for Christmas is a New Internet Router
The end-of-year holidays seem to be a great time for buying new technology or upgrading your existing gear. However, there are unexpected events that can occur when devices fail and you need a replacement. I recently encountered this situation. Most of us don’t want to needlessly spend money trying to keep up with the latest […]
