The move from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing scheme to the new and vastly more expansive IPv6 has been going on so long that it is becoming more like a tradition than a transition.

Migration has been gradual, but the move to IPv6 could speed up with IPv4 addresses running out The argument about how best to upgrade the Internet’s main communications protocol raged in the Internet ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...