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 ...

Free software is freedom, and so is mobility. In an age of embedded devices, nomadic users and omnipresent wireless connectivity, augmenting the venerable Internet Protocol (IP) with movement ...

IPv6 is the successor to our current internet protocol, IPv4. It offers many new features, including a vastly increased address space (128 bits of address vs. IPv4's measly 32 bits), easier ...

The Linux Foundation has announced that some of the major Linux distributions have been made IPv6 ready. IPv4 adresses have been running out for a while, and so in 2005 the US federal government ...

The IPv6 Workgroup of the Linux Foundation has announced that all major Linux distributions are now in compliance with Department of Defense certification policies, several months after the DoD began ...

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 ...