June 2024
Beginner to intermediate
1066 pages
35h 10m
English
This chapter covers the following exam topics:
1.0 Network Fundamentals
1.8 Configure and verify IPv6 addressing and prefix
1.9 Describe IPv6 address types
IPv4 has been a solid and highly useful part of the growth of TCP/IP and the Internet. For most of the long history of the Internet, and for most corporate networks that use TCP/IP, IPv4 is the core protocol that defines addressing and routing. However, although IPv4 has many great qualities, it has some shortcomings, creating the need for a replacement protocol: IP version 6 (IPv6).
IPv6 defines the same general functions as IPv4, but with different methods of implementing those functions. For example, both IPv4 and IPv6 define addressing, the concepts ...