The current version of the IP protocol, IPv4, has proved to be robust, easily implemented, interoperable and has stood the test of scaling to the size of today's Internet, most of which uses IPv4—now ...

Firewall features already available in IPv4 will be added to IPv6 protocol in Linux, but not until later in the year. Version 2.6.12 of the Linux kernel is likely to include packet filtering that will ...

IPv6, short for Internet Protocol Version 6, is the next-generation protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version of Internet Protocol, Version 4 (IPv4). Most of today's Internet uses ...

You can also disable IPv6 system wide. This requires a few simple entries at the command line that modify a configuration file on your computer. I'll give specific instructions for SUSE 10.x, but a ...

The IPv6 Workgroup of the Linux Foundation has announced that all major Linux distributions are now in compliance with Department of Defense certification policies, several months after the DoD began ...

One of the benefits of the next-generation Internet protocol known as IPv6 is the enhanced privacy it offers over its IPv4 predecessor. With a staggering 2 128 (or about 3.4×10 38) theoretical ...

Hi all, since it's IPv6 Day I thought I'd try to get IPv6 working on my home fibre connection with 2degrees (I've been a fibre customer since the Snap days). I did have it working previously on the ...

A security researcher has uncovered flaws in PureVPN's Linux client that could expose users' real IP addresses and weaken firewall protections. According to PureVPN, the flaws are limited to its Linux ...

Security researchers found a new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected *NIX devices and inject arbitrary data payloads into IPv4 and IPv6 TCP streams. They ...