Out-of-Band network design for service provider networks
Guest Post: How to design OOB networks for ISPs, inspired by data centre networking.
Tag: IPv4
The IPv6 transition
How much longer is this transition to IPv6 going to take and does it even matter?
Hypergiants are increasingly serving more content via local IPv6 networks
Guest Post: First-of-its-kind study compares IPv6 off-net deployment and latency to IPv4 across 14 hypergiants.
Looking for 240/4 addresses
Why not redesignate the reserved 240.0.0.0/4 address block for private use?
VPP with loopback-only OSPFv3: Part 2
Guest Post: Using Vector Packet Processing and Bird2 to eliminate IPv4 point-to-point networks, freeing up IPv4 addresses.
VPP with loopback-only OSPFv3: Part 1
Guest Post: With a small change to OSPFv3 it may be possible to avoid using IPv4 P2P transit networks.
VPP with Babel
Guest Post: How to conserve IPv4 addresses with IGP Babel.
Whose CIDR is it anyway?
Guest Post: A look at centralization in the ownership of IP blocks.
APNIC membership hits 10,000
On 29 February 2024, APNIC welcomed its 10,000th Member.
The end of the (IPv4) world is not nigh… yet
Reducing reliance on IPv4 is the goal. For some governments, this goal is significant enough to warrant action.