One of the biggest misconceptions about IPv6 is that it exposes your devices directly to the internet. Your router’s firewall ...

My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

Recent IPv6 announcements from Cisco and NEC America won’t have a dramatic impact on the U.S. network market this year. U.S. demand for IPv6 is small, primarily driven by early adopters and developers ...

But IPv6 migration creates new and possibly more severe problems as Internet routers already taxed with maintaining rapidly growing route tables now must cope with the addition of IPv6 routes (most ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

How to statically address a Windows 2008 / Windows 2008 R2 Server How to statically address a Windows 7 Client System How to setup DNS for IPv6 on a Windows 2008 R2 ...

An estimated one million Internet users are expected to have trouble connecting to some of their favorite Websites during World IPv6 Day on Wednesday. More than 400 popular Websites including Facebook ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

You're so close to creating your own IPv6-ready lab -- now InfoWorld's Matt Prigge takes you through the final steps Last week, we took a look at how to make the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 using ...

Some 200 technology companies including Akamai, Facebook, and Google will make the switch to IPv6 during the World IPv6 Day trial for 24 hours June 8. The test is intended to see how ready technology ...

IPv6 might not be quite here yet, but it's coming; here's how to get ahead of the familiarity curve now by building your own lab Note: This is part one of two; the second part will be posted next week ...