IPv6 address autoconfiguration, particularly through Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) and Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), is a critical component ensuring seamless network connectivity.

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Domains that ...

The Defense Department broadly recognizes the advantages Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in achieving netcentric operations, the ability to provide global end-to-end security for all military ...

For a decade, IPv6 proponents have pushed this upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol because of its three primary benefits: a gargantuan address space, end-to-end security and easier ...

Optimistic DAD is proposing a modification of the existing IPv6 ND (RFC 2461) and stateless address autoconfiguration (RFC 2462) algorithms. The intention is to minimize address configuration delays ...

Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for some time have habits that ...

IPv6 is the successor to our current internet protocol, IPv4. It offers many new features, including a vastly increased address space (128 bits of address vs. IPv4's measly 32 bits), easier ...

When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk ...

IPv6, short for Internet Protocol Version 6, is the next-generation protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version of Internet Protocol, Version 4 (IPv4). Most of today's Internet uses ...

All are assigned static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. One of the Server 2008 SP2 boxes also runs DHCPv4 and 6. DNS works just fine. If I ping by name, I am typically returned the IPv6 address of that ...