IPv6 and Rust
Guest Post: NLnet Labs shares their experience with Rust’s support for IPv6.
Tag: IPv6
Why is a /48 the recommended minimum prefix size for routing?
Proper IPv6 address planning can make network management easier now and in the future.
A developer’s take on IPv6 and DHCP
Guest Post: Learn how a fascination in IPv6 and a Masters thesis led to Dibbler, DHCPv6 and ultimately, Kea.
New IP and emerging communications technologies
What technologies will play a prominent role in the Internet over the next decade?
Getting IPv6 private addressing right
Guest Post: Unique Local Unicast Addresses are another example of IPv6 being treated similarly as IPv4.
SRv6 micro-instructions
Guest Post: An SRv6 extension enables up to six micro-instructions to be carried in each 16-byte instruction.
SRv6: Deployed use-cases
Guest Post: As of 2019, Segment Routing over IPv6 data plane (SRv6) has been deployed in eight large-scale networks; supported more than 25 hardware implementations at line rate; and implemented in 11 open-source platforms/applications.
Measuring the IPv6 network periphery
Guest Post: IPv6 network periphery is a new term to describe newly measured intricacies of IPv6 CPE and routers at the edge.
What is SRv6 network programming?
Guest Post: SRv6 enables you to code directly into each packet header where the traffic should be sent and how it should be treated.
3BB helps grow IPv6 capability in Thailand
Since early 2017, IPv6 capability in Thailand has increased from around 2% to 30% thanks largely to the efforts of two of the economy’s largest ISPs.