(Internet Protocol Version 4) The current version of the IP protocol. See IPv6.
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- Cisco patches IOS vulnerabilities
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- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better
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- Birth of IPv6
- Birth of IPv6Question - Will IPv6 be the new Y2K?I'll be graduating in September with a Network Engineering degree. Due to the economy, there just are not a lot of job openings for that specific calling. What I'm wondering is, do you think IPv6 will be to Network...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Birth of IPv6
- Well tonight's the night. For the first time, IPv6 domain resolution will be possible from a root server. Just a few addresses mind you, according to this article. You may ask "what took so long?". The answer is that we did not really need it. IPv6 bakes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Migrating to IPv6
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- Training 2008-01-01
- CCIE Routing and Switching Mock Labs Boot Camp
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- Training 2008-01-01
- IP Subnet Calculator for IPv4 and IPv6 (dmg)
- Input an IP address and choose one of the following: number of subnet bits, the maximum number of desired subnets, the number of host bits, or the maximum number of desired hosts. The calculator gives you a bit-by-bit address visualization and generates a complete table of subnets. CIDR allows multiple...
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- ARPmyNET (exe)
- ARPmyNET retrieves the MAC addresses of all networking equpiment on your subnet, and matches them against an OUI file. The result is a list of IP addresses with the corresponding MAC address and the IEEE register company for the MAC addresses. IP limitation ARPmyNET only works with IPv4 C-class IP...
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- VLC Media Player (8)
- VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or...
- Software downloads 2007-12-06
- CHScanner (9)
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- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- IP Subnet Calculator for IPv4 and IPv6 (msi)
- Input an IP address and choose one of the following: number of subnet bits, the maximum number of desired subnets, the number of host bits, or the maximum number of desired hosts. The calculator gives you a bit-by-bit address visualization and generates a complete table of subnets. CIDR allows multiple...
- Software downloads 2007-11-06
- Sprint IPv6 Services
- Sprint Nextel (Sprint) has led efforts to standardize, test, and deploy Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) since 1997. As an early adopter of IPv6 in an experimental capacity, Sprint builds upon knowledge gained through operating an IPv6 test-bed and encourages standardization and evolution of the IPv6 protocol. Sprint networks and...
- White papers 2007-09-01
- IPv6 Usage With Various Operating Systems
- In a nutshell, IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the successor to the most common Internet Protocol today (IPv4). This is largely driven by the fact that IPv4's 32-bit address is quickly being consumed by the ever-expanding sites and products on the internet. IPv6's 128-bit address space should not have...
- White papers 2007-09-01
- In light of Skype disruption, remember not all P2P is the same
- In light of Skype disruption, remember not all P2P is the sameSupernodes should not be neededipv4 and NAT are the reason supernodes are needed. If we could move to ipv6 (or something else) and evey host could get a public address p2p applications would not need these horrible kludges.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- HP-UX 11i TCP/IP Performance
- The HP-UX Networking Stack is especially engineered and tested for optimum performance in an enterprise mission-critical environment. HP-UX 11i v3 exhibits excellent performance on NFS server performance and in the TPC-C benchmark, a measurement of intensive online transaction processing (OLTP) in a database environment. This white paper is intended as...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Slow downloads in Linux? IPv6 may be to blame
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- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Slow downloads in Linux? IPv6 may be to blame
- Internet Protocol Version 6 (or IPv6 for short) promises to solve the problem of dwindling IP address. Long story short, we're running out of the roughly 4 billion addresses available to us under the current scheme (IPv4), so it's time for an upgrade. IPv6, in addition to providing...
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- IPConvert (msi)
- IPConvert will take a standard IPv4 IP address, in the standard dot notation format, and display it as an IPv6 IP address, showing it in four different formats. This is useful for quick conversions and for getting used to the up-and-coming IPv6 IP address format. You can also easily copy...
- Software downloads 2007-07-12
- Using IPv6: Watching the dancing turtle
- Using IPv6: Watching the dancing turtleWhy not wait till the last minute and just watch the turtle instead?You don't have to do the hard work of enabling IPv6, but recognize that the day will come when you need additional address space for another public-facing application, and there might not be...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- Using IPv6: Watching the dancing turtle
- ARIN, the organization responsible for giving out IP numbers in North America, says it's time to start using IPv6. This time, they really mean it! Can you hear the collective yawn? The fact is, until they're forced to, most people don't care and they're not going to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
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