IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well.

With few exceptions, I always encourage my clients to build a test lab—whether those clients are IPv6 implementers or not. Large network operators need little encouragement, because they readily ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I ...

IPv6 also has a mechanism called stateless autoconfiguration for configuring IPv6 addresses. Stateless autoconfig works without a central server to hand out individual addresses.

Each device will be allocated a dynamic /64 IPv6 prefix, with access to the next-gen addressing scheme on Telstra's network requiring further configuration on user devices.