Ossification and the Internet
Why IP, transport, routing, and DNS protocols can harden and what that means for the future of the public network.
Tag: IPv4
IP addresses through 2024
What IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2024 tells us about the changing nature of the network.
BGP updates in 2024
Did the stability of the routing system change in 2024?
BGP in 2024
Geoff Huston’s analysis of BGP routing table growth for 2024 and some projections.
Visualizing the scale differences of IPv4 and IPv6
The difference in scale between IPv4 and IPv6 is so vast that it’s difficult to represent clearly. Here’s one way to visualize it.
Out-of-Band network design for service provider networks
Guest Post: How to design OOB networks for ISPs, inspired by data centre networking.
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.