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.
Tag: IPv4
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.
IP addresses through 2023
What can IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2023 tell us about the changing nature of the network?
BGP in 2023 — BGP updates
Did the stability of the routing system change in 2023?