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 ...

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 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 ...

The recently released Linux 6.4 kernel is making some big networking strides that end users, enterprises and service providers will benefit from in the months to come. Among the key networking ...

Arch Linux site hit by DDoS on Christmas; unreachable for IPv4 users. Site accessible via IPv6—enable IPv6 to reach archlinux.org now. Arch wiki and docs still up—use them while the main site is under ...

I was thinking about the problem of using legacy IPv4-only apps with IPv6, and I got to thinking about how programs like stunnel and ssh can do a trick where they can either open a local port that ...