May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
8h 5m
English
Since we are connecting on layer 3, we will be using the IP protocol to connect as it is the de facto protocol of the internet. As we all know, IP comes in v4 and v6 variants. With IPv4, there is a clear distinction between private and public networks – private ranges sit in predefined private IP ranges, whereas with IPv6, there really is no such concept as all of the addressing being assigned in IPv6 belong to a global unicast scope (with the exception of fc00::/7, reserved for ULA, and fe80::/10, reserved for auto-configuration, which are special-purpose addresses but still belong to the global scope). This means that there will be quite a lot of distinction between the way two private networks are ...
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