If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5.Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t ...

The truth is a little complex when talking about IPv5, as it didn't really exist, nor did it ever become a mainstream standard. The name "IPv5" has retroactively been informally associated with ...

In all of the debate about the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, few people ever seem to ask about whatever happened to IPv5. Like Formula 408 and Special J cereal, some wonder whether an IPv5 ever ...

With IPv6, there are now enough IP combinations for everyone in the world to have a billion billion IP addresses for every second of their life. ... (Yes, there was an IPv5, ...

In fact, the new addressing protocol, called IPv6 (don't ask about IPv5) was standardized way back in 1998 and allows for 2 128 addresses. That's an unimaginably big number.

IPv5 already was created, just not adopted as a standard, and it wouldn't make sense to name it 5 when 6 exists anyway. Even though I hate IPv6, you're not going to be able to accomplish anything ...

IPv5 did exist, but it wasn’t meant to replace IPv4. IPv5 was an early, experimental attempt to come up with something specifically designed to handle streaming voice, audio and video—as ...

With U.S. federal government agencies facing a looming deadline to migrate to IPv6, router manufacturer Juniper Networks recently published an informational guide on this pending upgrade to the ...

(NEWSER) – Engineers who created 4.3 billion Internet Protocol addresses back in 1981 probably thought that by the time we ran through all those, we'd be puttering around in flying cars.