by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News, Our Thoughts
A dual-stack transition model was decided upon by the IETF as the appropriate one to use in the transition from IPV4 to IPV6. This was not unreasonable. Since the benefits of NAT (Network Address Translation) started to become apparent around that same time period,...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News
This article describes how enabling IPv6 in a dual stack environment led to a frustrating inability to send mail through a Microsoft Exchange Server. The troubleshooting of the problem moves through the networking layer of both IPv4 and IPv6 until the application...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News
This link describes the deployment of a new Sprint LTE mobile network as being done using Carrier Grade Nat with internal ip addresses which have been allocated the the US Department of Defense. Because the DoD network’s ip network is not connected to the...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News
We have been conditioned to consider NAT as the ugly duckling of the Internet Protocol world. Created as a workaround to the shortage of address space way back in the early 1990s, it came into being at a time when virtually every workstation, every printer, every...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Our Thoughts
Many people feel that upon final exhaust of the available free pool of IPV4 addresses, there will be a significant enough change in the state of things as to cause some kind of upheaval. Either there will be a legislative event or a some kind of universal drive...
