There’s lots of IPv6-capable equipment out there. But there’s even more IPv4-only equipment, and IPv6 gear also works in IPv4, so that’s the default.

The updated IPv6 Standard Profile provides a technical and standards based definition of interoperability requirements for IPv6-capable products to be used in DOD networks.

The updated IPv6 Standard Profile provides a technical and standards based definition of interoperability requirements for IPv6-capable products to be used in DOD networks.

If you work in the federal space you have been mandated to buy equipment that is IPv6 capable so your entire infrastructure might be made up of equipment that can run this protocol. Hackers have ...

IPv6 is needed because the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses.IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressed devices on the Internet.

Agencies must upgrade Internet services by 2012. Think IPv6 is so 2008? Think again. All agencies met the Office of Management and Budget's June 2008 deadline to demonstrate their ability to carry ...

“We are working toward a true IPv6 capability.” Strance says NIPRNET will not be an operational IPv6-capable network by June 30, despite the agency having worked on IPv6 transition for five years.

Does it mean the IPv6-capable web servers are on a different network? I asked these questions (and several others) in reply, and never received a response. Which seems, ...

Software vendors’ proactive approach to IPv6 has created a glaring security hole for companies that think they haven’t activated the next-generation Internet addressing protocol yet, Cisco ...

Here’s how I recently built an IPv6-capable router/firewall in a few hours with junk lying around my office. What you’ll need to get started. First off, you’ll need a piece of hardware.

I wrote in the previous post that many network executives resist IPv6 deployment because they cannot find a means to make it profitable. This is a misguided viewpoint, because IPv6 is an ...

While only 38 percent of the IT infrastructures at defense agencies currently include IPv6-capable equipment and related services, that is expected to rise to 87 percent by 2011, ...