Chapter 25. IPv6 Access Control Lists

IP version 6 (IPv6) access control lists (ACL) provide a way for the network and security administrator to control the flow of IPv6 connections traversing the network. IPv6 ACLs provide a way to secure inbound and outbound connections as a part to the overall corporate security strategy and policy. Thus, IPv6 ACLs are a component of a layered security model that provides diversity of defensive techniques and defense in depth of complementary security approaches.

IPv6 ACLs share many of the same characteristics as IPv4 ACL, so your knowledge of IPv4 ACLs is directly transferable to IPv6 ACLs. As you have already learned, IPv6 is similar to IPv4, but it has some subtle differences in the way it works. Your ...

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