Managing IP address space has changed a lot over the years. Back when our Head Geek (a.k.a. Josh Stephens) started networking, most everyone used public IP address space and kept track of their IP addresses in Excel. And back then, IP was only one of the key protocols and was really not any more important than IPX, Vines, or AppleTalk.
Nowadays, IP is the most important thing on your network and the shortage of public IPv4 address space has network engineers resorting to technologies like Network Address Translation (NAT). And talk of IPv6 has many of us scratching our heads and wondering how/if/when it will affect us. About the only thing that hasn't changed are the spreadsheets.
Join us as we delve deeper into today's IP address space management challenges and expose some best practices and best in class technologies to make this task easier. Some of the things that we cover are:
• When to use public vs. private IP address space
• Complexities caused by private address space
• What you really need to know about IPv6 today
• Best practices for assigning and tracking IP addresses
• Key technologies for IP address tracking and management
We'll also take a look at SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Version 10.0, including the exciting Workspace Studio™ feature.