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 ...

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover what we’ve found to be a well organized and managed process of getting from an IPv4 environment to an IPv6 environment, effectively putting the chicken ...

A subnet allows the flow of network traffic between hosts to be segregated based on a network configuration. By organizing hosts into logical groups, subnetting can improve network security and ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

The last editionof this column discussed subnet masks and the nature of IP addressing. In this and the following column, we will begin discussing what subnetting means and how to do it. First, though, ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...