What Every IT Operations Team Should Know About Managing IPv4 in 2026
IPv4 was supposed to be a temporary problem. Address exhaustion was meant to push the entire internet toward IPv6 within a decade, and operations teams could simply manage the transition and move on. That hasn't happened. Most enterprise networks still run dual-stack configurations, customer-facing services still depend heavily on IPv4, and the secondary market for addresses has become a permanent fixture of modern infrastructure planning.