Disclosure: I am one of the world’s biggest fans of, and greatest advocates for, IPv6. In the words of rapper 50 Cent, “I love it like a fat kid loves cake.” Anyone I have ever been able to corner in a room knows this to be true. That being said… I just finished reading [yet…
v6 Vertex – A Brief Explanation of IPv6 Address Types ITdojo’s v6 Vertex is an ever-expanding set of quick tips and useful advice for using IPv6 in your network. People who have been using IPv4 for some time know that there are three basic address types that are commonly discussed: unicast, broadcast and multicast. When…
v6 Vertex – Quick Tips & Pointers for IPv6 Users ITdojo’s v6 Vertex is an ever-expanding set of quick tips and useful advice for using IPv6 in your network. As you begin to make use of IPv6 you will often wonder whether or not you are actually using the protocol and whether or not your…
v6 Vertex – Quick Tips & Pointers for IPv6 Users ITdojo’s v6 Vertex is an ever-expanding set of quick tips and useful advice for using IPv6 in your network. SSH use is daily and ubiquitous. In our increasingly mixed IPv4/IPv6 world we need to be conscious of the ways in which we are connecting (or…
v6 Vertex – Quick Tips & Pointers for IPv6 Users ITdojo’s v6 Vertex is an ever-expanding set of quick tips and useful advice for using IPv6 in your network. For Apple OSX Users: If you need to view the IPv6 neighbor information on your OS X powered device all you need to do is open…
We spotted this interesting IPv6 article this morning written by Angus Kidman at Lifehacker and wanted to share it with you. Here’s an excerpt: “We’ve known for decades that the available pool of IPv4 address was eventually going to dry up, but despite numerous warnings usage of its successor IPv6 is still minimal. Why haven’t…
Path MTU discovery (PMTUD) is far from a new concept to IT folk. A sending node sets the Don’t Fragment bit in its IPv4 header which is the nodes way of telling any router along the journey to the packet’s destination that it may not fragment the packet into smaller parts. The router, being an…
Because every interface on your system, physical or virtual, has a link local IPv6 address your system needs a little guidance as to which one to use when sending packets to link-local IPv6 addresses. From an IPv4 perspective this type of addressing is an alien concept. But to IPv6, it’s everyday life.
I can sum it up with one sentence: IPv6 costs money, it does not make it. But the long ago the world received the commandment from the ether: Migrate! Migrate …and pay for it yourself with no immediately obvious capacity for a return on the investment. And we wonder why the migration is almost 20…
IPv6 has added many new words and ideas to the lexicon of IT professionals. One of the least expected: deprecate. The dictionary (dictionary.com) says that deprecate means “to express earnest disapproval of”, to “urge reasons against” or, oddly, “to pray for deliverance from”. In the IT world the world a thing being ‘deprecated’ is a…