If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

We all know that the Internet's supply of Ipv4 addresses is running ever lower. What you may not know is that IPv4 exhaustion, when we're completely out of available IPv4 addresses, is approaching ...

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The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses—not at some point in the future, but <em>right now</em>. But the only solution to the problem, IPv6, is just now ...

You'd think by now with the last IPv4 Internet addresses disappearing, we'd all be well on our way to using IPv6 addresses. You'd be wrong. So, it is that there's now a growing market for IPv4 ...

The format of an IP address in the traditional 32-bit version of the IP protocol. For the foreseeable future, IPv4 will co-exist with the newer IPv6 version (see IPv6). IPv4 uses a "dotted decimal" ...

One of the biggest boons of the digital era is that you can't run out digital goods. Unless the "good" in question is an Internal Protocol address. North America has officially exhausted its supply of ...