The format of an IP address in the traditional 32-bit version of the IP protocol. For the foreseeable future, IPv4 will co-exist with the newer IPv6 version (see IPv6). IPv4 uses a "dotted decimal" ...
In February, the news broke that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority had allocated the final blocks of IPv4 addresses to the five Regional Internet Registries to be distributed to parties within ...
1,370 million IPv4 addresses were used up this past decade. We have 722 million left, so the bottom of the pool is in sight. There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, ...
Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...
In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...