When it comes down to it, IPv4 port forwarding really only exists because NAT exists. IPv6 removes the need for NAT entirely in a home lab situation, which changes the problem in an important way: ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

Abstract: We claim that the slow deployment of IPv6 seen so far is related with the complete decoupling with IPv4 regarding to routing and addressing. In this paper we propose Integrated Routing and ...

Abstract: Ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) is a simple hardware device for fast IP lookups that can perform a lookup per cycle. However, prefixes may be inserted into or deleted from the TCAM ...

Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of ...

Just reaching out to see if anyone else has experienced this issue which Gigaclear are looking into but, so far, have not found a solution. I ordered a static public IPv4 address and had this ...

The exponential growth of internet-connected devices has rendered IPv4’s limited address space obsolete, necessitating a global transition to IPv6. This paper comprehensively examines the technical, ...

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Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Domains that ...

Though Openfabric will happily insert onlink routes on unnumbered interfaces, it seems that IS-IS "needs" to have an IPv4 address on the interface(s), else it doesn't have next hops to insert. I've ...