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 […]
Welcome to the New Age: ARIN Exhausts IPv4 Addresses
In the next few days, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) will finally run out of IPv4 addresses. ARIN is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and North Atlantic islands, so any organization within those boundaries will no longer be able to guarantee assignment of new IPv4 addresses […]
Using Agile and Scrum Methodologies to Accelerate IPv6 Deployment
As I was reading Ed Horley’s fifth blog post in his series on IPv6 planning and deployment best practices, it made me think about how organizations shouldn’t wait to get started. Organizations should not delay their IPv6 deployment by trying to attempt to design it perfectly from the start. Large and small organizations tend to […]
IPv4 Addresses in North America: Going, Going, Gone!
Like the monotonous droning sound of jungle drums so has been the repetitive and continual predictions about the exhaustion of world’s supply of public IPv4 address. We have been hearing about the impending scarcity of IPv4 addresses for so long that we don’t hear the calls to action. The recent announcement by The American Registry […]
How to Buy (Or Sell) IPv4 Addresses
IPv4 Address Exhaustion Has Occurred
Highlights from 2015 North American IPv6 Summit
On April 22-23, 2015, the North American IPv6 Summit was held in Denver, Colorado put on by the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF). This is the eighth annual IPv6 event in Denver. This year’s event provided a fun way to learn about the latest in IPv6 deployment information and offered a great environment to […]
Don’t Go To the Dark Side: Deploy IPv6 Now
IPv6 Versus IPv4 is Not an Either/Or Situation
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery: Keep Calm and IPv6 On!
The security of IPv4 is roughly equivalent to IPv6. So why do we expect more from IPv6?
IPv6 Deployment: Do You Need a Subnet Calculator?
You may be familiar with the anecdote about a frog placed in warm water that is brought up to a boiling temperature so slowly he does not perceive that he is being cooked. However, if the frog was put directly into boiling water he would immediately notice and jump out of the pot. Similarly, many […]
Troubleshoot IPv6 and IPv4 with These Free Mobile Apps
Living “Life in a Dual Stack World” requires that we have tools available to help us operate both protocols with aplomb. After all, we will be performing many networking tasks twice; once for IPv4 and once for IPv6. Any technique or tool that we can utilize to speed up our configuration or troubleshooting will help […]
