All are assigned static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. One of the Server 2008 SP2 boxes also runs DHCPv4 and 6. DNS works just fine. If I ping by name, I am typically returned the IPv6 address of that ...

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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 ...

When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk ...

IPv6 proponents have long been predicting the death of IPv4 to get the industry to recognize the importance of IPv6. Although IPv4 address exhaustion has occurred, many organizations are still ...

Vince Cerf, one of the Internet's fathers, wants you to use IPv6. Network administrators have long known that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, ...