IPv6 nd State Machine
Have you ever questioned yourself what happens when an IPv6 host wants to send a packet to a certain destination with a link-layer address unknown. In IPv4, finding a proper link-layer address for a...
View ArticleIPv6 – Scopes and Zones
IPv6 is well designed. The model of scopes and zones along with the zone isolation principle is based on solid mathematical standards and can provide straight answers to tricky questions regarding...
View ArticleIP addressing – a numbers game
The depletion of the IPv4 allocation pool has been a concern since the late 1980’s, when the internet really started to see enormous growth. Since then there have been many techniques developed to...
View Article8 Key Changing Factors That Will Grow IoT
The Internet of Things (IOT) is driven by change in the following nine Key Areas: The explosion of Apps for anything and everything Increased growth of Big Data and Analytics Standarization of IPv6;...
View ArticleEmbedded Packet Capture, let’s go fishing for some packets!
EPC (Embedded Packet Capture) is another useful troubleshooting tool to occasionally capture traffic to be analyzed locally or exported to remote device. Occasionally, in contrast with RITE (Router IP...
View ArticleIPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack PPPoE
The lab covers a scenario of adding basic IPv6 access to an existing PPPoE (PPP for IPv4). PPPoE is established between CPE (Client Premise Equipment) the PPPoE client and the PPPoE server also known...
View ArticleIPv6 Series part 5: Packet Header and Structure
Welcome to the fifth article in the IPv6 series. In past articles, we have looked at IPv6 address types, the IPv6 scoped address architecture and, most recently, interface identifiers for unicast...
View ArticleIPv6 Series part 6: ICMPv6
So far in this series, we have looked at the features of IPv6, IPv6 addressing, and the structures of IPv6 headers and packets. In this article, we will be looking at a protocol that is important to...
View ArticleIPv6: IPv6 / IPv4 Comparative Statistics
Prefixes IPv6 IPv4 IPv6 / IPv4 Prefix Count 32409 628153 32409 / 628153 = 0.0516 Addresses IPv6 IPv4 IPv6 / IPv4 Announced Address Span 155.235 0.60377371 15.5235 / 0.60377371 = 25.7108...
View ArticleThread Network
Thread is not a new standard, but rather a combination of existing, open source standards such as IEEE and IETF that define a uniform, interoperable wireless network stack enabling communication...
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