Procket Networks announced a new software release that enhances the IPv6 capability of its PRO/8000 Concurrent Services Routers and adds new security features. The new features include support for PIM-SM Source Specific Multicast (SSM), IPv4/IPv6 output packet filtering, and packet filtering permit accounting for easier characterization of denial of service (DoS) attacks. http://www.procket.com/
Procket Networks Extends IPv6 Support, Security
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You just read about IPv6. Here is what it replaced:
IPv4 served 1981–2011. What ultimately replaced it?
IPv4 32-bit addressing with best-effort datagram delivery and (post-CIDR) classless routing; NAT stretched its ~4.3 billion addresses far past exhaustion, keeping it alive despite IPv6. Its job passed to IPv6 — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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April 21From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.