When it comes to personal networks, simplicity is key, and the idea of transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 addresses seems crazy. However, with the increasing number of ‘smart’ devices ...

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been ...

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 ...

Unlike IPv4's four sets of numbers separated by dots, IP addresses in IPv6 are represented as eight sets of four hexadecimal characters separated by colons; for example: 2001:fe80:d4e4:d1e6 ...

The most well-known and important enhancement introduced by IPv6 is the expansion of the address space as the result of increased bit allocation for an IPv6 address, that is, from 32 bits in IPv4 to ...

Sections 7.4 through Section 7.6 cover the IPv6 addressing scheme is some detail. The previous subsections introduced some basic concepts on addressing, and these concepts are expanded in this chapter ...

3. It needs to acquire an IP address of its own, so that other computers will be able to send messages to it. In IPv4, these functions are all handled by different protocols, but in IPv6 they have ...

However, because of the growth of the Internet and the predicted depletion of available addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995. IPv6 was ...