The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized ...

It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

In hindsight, we reached peak IPv4 two years ago. The good news is that IPv6 is doing very well—but not nearly well enough. Is the IPv6 glass 1 percent full or 99 percent empty? “Hi, I’d like to sign ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t have ...

In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...

Internet Protocol (IP) is the foundation of the internet, enabling communication between devices across the globe. Without an IP address, the Internet will simply not work because the data will not ...

IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...

It's time to elevate your scraping game. Treat IPv4 and IPv6 as equals to capture the full spectrum of web audiences and behaviors.

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 ...