From the category archives:

IPv6

Day One: Exploring IPv6

15 March, 2010

Day One: Exploring IPv6

I am very excited to announce that I am now a published author! My first ISBN worthy document is a 76-page introduction to IPv6 in JUNOS titled Day One: Exploring IPv6. This is the first booklet in the Junos® Networking Technologies Series and the newest of Juniper Network’s Day One Booklets.
Scott Hogg, Director of Advanced Technology Services at [...]

{ 0 comments }

The annual Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit (RMv6 Summit) put on by the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF) is shaping up to be another great event this year. I attended both of the previous (2008 & 2009) RMv6 Summits and have thoroughly enjoyed every single session. I learned much more than I expected at each [...]

{ 0 comments }

Those of you tuned in to Internet policy are surely aware of the upcoming meeting of an ITU group on IPv6 that will be discussing WTSA Resolution 64 – IP address allocation and encouraging the deployment of IPv6. Unfortunately, I have been extremely busy with some other far less exciting projects and have not found [...]

{ 0 comments }

Hurricane Electric announces a free iPhone App, Webpage Widget, and Google and Windows Desktop Gadgets that report the growth of IPv6 deployment and the exhaustion of IPv4.

{ 0 comments }

In response to offline comments on my February post “How Much IPv6 is There?” I am going to take a brief look at the comparative scale of the MAC address space to the IPv4 and IPv6 address spaces.
The original (and thus most commonly encountered at this time) standard for Media Access Control (MAC) addresses is [...]

{ 1 comment }

The 2009 Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit is a FREE two day affair put on by the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF) to help increase IPv6 awareness, knowledge and skills among Colorado and Rocky Mountain area organizations (and individuals). See you there!

{ 0 comments }

How Much IPv6 is There?

22 February, 2009

While there may be over an octillion times more individual IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses; in terms of actually usability, IPv6 is somewhere in the range of 16 million to 17 billion times larger than IPv4. Much larger, yes; infinite, no.

{ 7 comments }