IPv6 - What is IPv6?
March 1, 2022
What is IPv6?
During the early 1990s, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) initiated work on developing a successor to the IPv4 protocol. The primary motivation behind this effort was the understanding that the 32-bit IPv4 address space would soon be exhausted, with new subnets and IP nodes being added to the Internet at a staggering rate. To address this growing need for an expanded IP…