This chapter discusses the implications of the IPv6 extension headers, how they work, and how they differ from the IP option headers used with IPv4. Particular attention will be paid to the proper ...

This is similar to the way that Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) in IPv4 is used for general control, but has many codes for specific control functions. When examining the IPv6 header, we can ...

The global transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has gained major traction, driven by the urgent need to accommodate a rapidly expanding number of internet-connected devices and the introduction of IPv6 ...

IPv4 has supposedly been on its way out for decades now, with IPv6 poised to take over the world. But here in 2024, we're all ...

Is the Internet dead then? Hardly, because of course IPv6, the replacement for IPv4, has been with us for decades and has a much larger 128-bit address space. The problem is that there is a huge ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...