This book provides a tour of the new features & functions in IPv6. It guides you through everything you need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts & routers and which applications currently support IPv6. The new IPv6 protocol offers extended address space, scalability, improved support for security, real-time traffic support, and auto-configuration so that even a novice user can connect a machine to the Internet. Aimed at system and network administrators, engineers, network designers, and IT managers, this book will help you understand, plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current IPv4 infrastructure.
Beginning with a short history of IPv6, author Silvia Hagen provides an overview of new functionality and discusses why we need IPv6. Hagen also shares discussions of the new IPv6 header format and Extension Headers, IPv6 address and ICMPv6 message format, Security, QoS, Mobility and, offers a Quick Start Guide for different operating systems. IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition also covers: - Technical guide to IPv6;
- Mechanisms and Case Studies that show how to integrate IPv6 into your network without interruption of IPv4 services;
- Routing protocols and upper layer protocols;
- Security in IPv6: concepts and requirements;
- Includes the IPSEC framework and security elements available for authentication & encryption;
- Quality of Service: covers the elements available for QoS in IPv6 and how they can be implemented;
- Detailed discussion of DHCPv6 and Mobile IPv6;
- Discussion of migration cost and business case.