IPv6 News

Linux adds router denial-of-service prevention

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:40:20 +0000

The recently completed Linux 2.6.34 merge window included a patch to eliminate a type of denial-of-service attack against routers.
Complete info at LWN.

TRICE Survey: Preparing For The Future Internet Protocol

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:41:27 +0000

In its 2008 action plan for the deployment of the Future Internet Protocol in Europe, the European Commission is calling for the inclusion of relevant technology knowledge in retraining curricula and in higher education computer and network engineering courses. To support this action, the European Commission, Directorate F – Information Society and Media Unit F4, has just launched a new study aimed at evaluating the current landscape (needs and offer) in the field of the Future Internet Protocols training.

If you are in an organisation providing training and courses in the field of Information Technologies or if you are an organisation making use of IT in its daily activity, you are invited to take the TRICE survey. By answering the survey questions, you will be contributing to the definition of recommendations aimed at developing a European landscape for IT training in line with your needs.

More info

Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:51:04 +0000

Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium announced on Thursday the availability of open source software that will help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

Called Address Family Transition Router (AFTR), the software is available immediately and free of charge to network engineers who want to experiment with this IPv6 transition mechanism. AFTR version 1.01 can be downloaded here.

Red Hat alert RHSA-2010:0149-01

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:42:35 +0000

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Extended Update Support.
Complete info at LWN.

Red Hat alert RHSA-2010:0148-01

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:41:32 +0000

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Extended Update Support.
Complete info at LWN.

Intel: We want to bring Moores Law to the smart grid

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:40:07 +0000

Intel wants to bring its microprocessing muscle and Moores Law to the smart grid, an executive said yesterday.
Complete info at SmartPlanet and ZDNet.

It’s time to prepare for IPv6

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:35:44 +0000

If your business relies at all on the internet, then you’d better get up to speed on IPv6 – if you don’t, your customers won’t be able to reach you. What does IPv6 mean for business, how much time is left before the transition and how do businesses prepare?

Pundits have warned of the impending shortage of IPv4 address space for some time, but these warnings have largely fallen on deaf ears. Those ears had better prick up soon, because now is the time to consider the impact of IPv6 on your business.

China is reshaping international systems, said Newsweek

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:00:21 +0000

Nobody doubts that China deserves a big say in what goes on in todays world. However, Newsweeks senior editor Rana Foroohar and its Beijing bureau chief Melinda Liu argued that China would not be satisfied with it.
Complete info at ChinaDaily.

The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum Forge Global Partnership to Promote Interoperability

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:59:26 +0000

Leading technology industry associations The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum have joined forces to drive the deployment and interoperability of session initiation protocol (SIP) and Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) related technologies and services.
Complete info at EarthTimes, ArticleAnt and FoxBusiness.

Fifty-Nine Percent of Industrial Companies are Planning Wireless Sensing Solutions

The IPv6 Portal Main News — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:57:17 +0000

ON World reports that the two competing standards for wireless process automation, WirelessHART and ISA100.11a, will ultimately benefit end users by driving innovation and attracting new entrants. As hundreds of participants work on a single converged wireless standard, IP sensor networking has emerged as a key technology as part of this evolution.
Complete info at EarthTimes and PRWeb.