There’s plenty of material online on the IPv6 vs. IPv4 topic. Suffice it to say that IPv6 provides a gazillion times more addresses than IPv4, making the address space exhaustion a non-issue and obsoleting workarounds such as NAT that’s been used for many years to extend IPv4’s life. That’s the good news. With IPv6, you — Continue reading »
Dabbling in IPv6
📆 January 11, 2019
Nowadays many people know of IP addresses. Those 4 numbers (technically known as octets) separated by dots (e.g. 173.162.146.61) which connect all of our devices to the Internet and allow them to find each other. Of course many don't understand the underlying technologies that make the whole thing work and they don't really need to — Continue reading »