Tag Archives: ipv6

How IPv6 Headers Are Formed, Compared To IPv4

Posted on Friday, April 9, 2010 by Matti

On the cisco.com website, there is an excellent write-up on IPv6 headers. The author describes in great detail how the IPv6 packets are created, and how they compare to IPv4. The IHL – or Internet Header Length – was removed from … Continue reading →

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IPv6 And Security: What You Probably Don’t Know

Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 by Matti

For anyone claiming IPv6 is more secure than IPv4, take a deep breath, count to ten, and rethink your arguments again. While IPv6 has some technological advantages over IPv4, I wouldn’t go so far as saying it’s safer. Scanning ~3.7billion … Continue reading →

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Stateless Autoconfiguration To Replace DHCP For Some Systems

Posted on Friday, April 2, 2010 by Matti

Stateless Address Autoconfiguration is a technique where individual nodes in a network can generate their own unique IP address, based on a “network address” which the router will send out, and a unique part generated from the hosts’ MAC address. … Continue reading →

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Starting The IP:v6::guide – IPv6 Knowledge

Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 by Matti

As I firmly believe in the future of IPv6, and the urgency at which we need to teach ourselves and implement its services, I started the IP:v6:guide blog. In time, it should feature all common protocols used by IPv6 with … Continue reading →

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IPv4 and IPv6 network charts

Posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 by Matti

Having collegues that go to RIPE meetings, sure has its advantages. Besides learning a bit more of the operations of one of worlds largest Internet Resource Allocators, they get to bring home some ‘goodies’, including useful IPv4 and IPv6 network … Continue reading →

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