May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
8h 20m
English
IPv6 Addressing
In the early 1990s, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) grew concerned about the exhaustion of the IPv4 network addresses and began to look for a replacement for this protocol. This activity led to the development of what is now known as IPv6. Today’s review focuses on the IPv6 protocol and IPv6 address types.
Scaling networks today requires a limitless supply of IP addresses and improved mobility that private addressing and network address translation (NAT) alone cannot meet. IPv6 satisfies the increasingly complex requirements of hierarchical ...
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