If network troubleshooting leads you to believe there's an issue with IPv6, you may need to shut down that protocol on your Linux machines. IPv6 offers a much larger addressing scheme than IPv4, which ...

Internet Protocol Version 6 (or IPv6 for short) promises to solve the problem of dwindling IP address. Long story short, we're running out of the roughly 4 billion addresses available to us under the ...

Version 2.6.12 of the Linux kernel is likely to include packet filtering that will work with IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol. Netfilter/iptables, the firewall engine that is part of ...

The IPv6 Workgroup of the Linux Foundation has announced that all major Linux distributions are now in compliance with Department of Defense certification policies, several months after the DoD began ...

IPv6 is the next-generation protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace IPv4, the current version of the Internet Protocol. IPv4 has been remarkably resilient. However, ...

Linux kernel development follows a rapid pace with new releases every six to ten weeks. Among the key networking features in Linux 6.4 are multiple improvements to improve traffic flow, extended ...

One of the benefits of the next-generation Internet protocol known as IPv6 is the enhanced privacy it offers over its IPv4 predecessor. With a staggering 2 128 (or about 3.4×10 38) theoretical ...

IPv6, short for Internet Protocol Version 6, is the next-generation protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version of Internet Protocol, Version 4 (IPv4). Most of today's Internet uses ...

Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 cloud computers. When you fire up an EC2 virtual machine, you get an IPv6 address like this.