When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...

On the Internet, where routers, switches, computers, and other devices are intricately intertwined, packets must pass through many routers before they can reach the destination server. However, if a ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

You may have IPv6 capabilities on your mobile phone and not even realize it. It has become apparent in 2008 that several mobile phone providers in the U.S. have started to include IPv6 capabilities in ...

The world is running out of IP addresses. The current version of the Internet Protocol relies on unique addresses for each device that connects to a network. In the case of the Internet, public IP ...

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Traceroute shows the path your internet traffic takes to reach a website, highlighting delays at each stop. To use the ...

Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques. Nmap ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...