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As Greg Ferro says, IPv6 is the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps you've seen the news: Microsoft spends $7.5m on net addresses . Why would Microsoft offer to buy 666,624 IPv4 addresses at a price of $11.25 each? Does it mean that they don't...
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I did a post last week titled " Are You Ready for IPv6? " where I share some of my thoughts on IPv6 and the allocation of the last IPv4 /8 blocks. Since then, I've done some more reading and found a couple of very useful podcasts by Greg...
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ARIN recently announced that they handed out the last /8 IPv4 address allocations (read about it here ). Comcast also announced that they are doing trials of IPv6 . When will we run out of IPv4 addresses? Well, it will be a little while longer before...
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I recently received a comment from Gerry Gerofsky about IPv6 network discovery: Hi Terry, I am trying to understand how CiscoWorks, OpenView discovers an IPv6 network? In Ipv4, typically a tool like OpenView CiscoWorks, you feed it a subnet and it goes...
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IPv6 and the addresses are big and difficult to remember. Upon initial configuration of network gear, it is tempting to use the EUI-64 encoding ( article with a definition of EUI-64 by Wendell Odom ) and let the device create the interface identifier...
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Network World just did an article on network management of IPv6 in which Netcordia was mentioned. ( Where eight network management vendors stand on IPv6 ) Of course, a short interview doesn’t provide much opportunity to say much about a reasonably complex...
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One of the security factors I’ve heard espoused about IPv6 is that the large address space (128 bits: 64 bits of network and 64 bits of host address) makes it impossible to scan the network for hosts. On initial inspection, this seemed like a reasonable...
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