Support for IPv6 - IPv6 (IP version 6) is the successor to the IPv4 protocol used in the Internet today. IPv6 incorporates a number\nof improvements over IPv4, namely integrated network security, plus an increased address space to alleviate IPv4\naddress exhaustion through use of 128-bit addresses (rather than 32-bit addresses), which allows for 3.4 × 1038 possible addresses ...