IPv6 News

The introduction of a second IP protocol into the Internet presents
many technical issues, and in previous columns we’ve explored many of
the issues related to network engineering and infrastructure. In this
column I’d like to head upward in the protocol stack to the rarefied
air way up there at the level of the application, and look at how
applications are managing to cope with the issue of running IPv4
and IPv6 at once.

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Patrick McHardy has announced the release of patches for the ip6tables IPv6 packet filter under Linux on the netfilter project’s developer mailing list. The patches allow the software to replace the address information in IPv6 data packets with different information as an implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT).
Complete info at The H Open.

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Erion is pleased to announce that we are running several of our world-leading IPv6 training courses as public events in London UK during April 2012. These include our Implementing IPv6, Securing IPv6 and Introduction to IPv6 courses.
On the 16th April 2012 we are running our 1-day Introduction to IPv6 . This course is an [...]

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Earlier in November we found out that Andrews & Arnold was testing a new IPv6 capable router, that would be cheap enough to supply free to its customers. The router can now be identified as the Technicolor TG582n wireless router.
Complete info at ThinkBroadband and BroadbandWatcher.

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Often when looking at IPv6 deployment statistics, the size of the organisation or the network is not taken into account. In this article, we look at IPv6 deployment of Local Internet Registries (LIRs) per country in correlation to the size of the LIR.
Complete info at CircleID.

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In my last post I provided an update on the rate of IPv4 depletion and IPv6 adoption. This time I will look at what needs to be done to make sure we all stay connected to the Internet in 2012 and beyond.
Complete info at ITProPortal.

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One of the shining possibilities of IP networks for the service providers that formerly focused solely on telecommunications services is that they can broaden their horizons — significantly.
Complete info at ITBusinessEdge.

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NetworkTrafficView is a compact portable tool which displays in-depth information on the traffic passing through your specified network adapter.
Complete info at PC Advisor.

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Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Complete info at LWN.

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NetworkTrafficView is a compact portable tool which displays in-depth information on the traffic passing through your specified network adapter.
Complete info at PC Advisor.

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