my ISP recently introduced a new product, a /29 IPv4, on top of the /32 IPv4 and IPv6 that I already get. They simply route the 8 addresses of the /29 to my current IP address. Normally, regular ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

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 ...

The time is ripe for your business to migrate to IPv6, but you need to keep your new connections safe. Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) is the way that internet communication will be handled for ...

It started as a joke – “we should try the classic telnet login root:root on random IP addresses” – but it soon evolved into a massive, illegal project to hack into nearly half-a-million ...

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 ...