Comments on: Disadvantages of changing IPv4 into IPv6 addresses http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/disadvantages-of-changing-ipv4-into-ipv6-addresses/ Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: rechil http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/disadvantages-of-changing-ipv4-into-ipv6-addresses/#comment-83527 rechil Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:40:02 +0000 #comment-83527 IPv6 is considered the future successor of the old internet protocol, IPv4. Although Ipv6 has began serving in the current time, IPv4 is still the main controller of the market. Yet, IPv4 is suffering from a serious exhaustion and problems which are giving focus to the upcoming IPv6.

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/disadvantages-of-changing-ipv4-into-ipv6-addresses/#comment-83519 tomliotta Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:25:15 +0000 #comment-83519 The first two things that come to mind are (1) you need to become familiar with the new address format and (2) software that was written to the earlier APIs may need to be changed to use IPv6-enabled APIs wherever appropriate.

Tom

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