IPv4 Exhaustion

Posted 28 January 2011

In Industry

In a recent article Axel Pawlik, managing director of RIPE which hands out net addresses in Europe, said he expected the entire stock to run dry in September 2011. Mr Pawlik said there would not be chaos once the IPv4 addresses were used up. However, he said, it made sense to start switching as the technical work-arounds to cope with a lack of IPv4 addresses were unwieldy and limited. "IPv6 is the solution," he said. For more advice and guidance on hosting on IPv6 ready networks contact jon@tjs.co.uk