Storing and retrieving IP prefixes efficiently
Guest Post: Searching for the perfect data structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.
Tag: IPv6
IPv6 fragmentation loss in 2021
Has the situation with fragmented IPv6 packets changed in the past four years?
IPv6 in 2020
Did the COVID-19 pandemic have any impact on the deployment and use of IPv6?
Tackling the Catch-22 of IPv6 enterprise uptake
Guest Post: Enterprises are only willing to adopt IPv6 once they see it working, but that can’t happen until they have the necessary expertise. What can be done?
Addressing 2020
Geoff Huston reports on IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2020 and makes some predictions for the future.
China Telecom’s IPv6 efforts are beginning to show in the numbers
An IPv6 deployment that began with a series of relatively isolated IPv6 metro area networks (MANs) has begun to take off.
BGP in 2020 — BGP Update Churn
Part two of Geoff Huston’s 2020 BGP report investigates whether the stability of the routing system is changing.
BGP in 2020 – The BGP Table
Geoff Huston analyses recent and historical BGP routing table growth and forecasts IPv4 and IPv6 BGP routing table growth for the next five years.
Three of the best: IPv6
Global IPv6 adoption passed 28% in 2020 as more networks continue to deploy IPv6.
Data exfiltration via IPv6
Guest Post: Tests show there are ways in which malware can exfiltrate data via IPv6.