April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
900 pages
29h 25m
English
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Part VII: IP Version 6
So far, this book has mostly ignored IP version 6 (IPv6). This part reverses the trend, collecting all the specific IPv6 topics into five chapters.
The chapters in this part of the book walk you through the same topics discussed throughout this book for IPv4, oftentimes using IPv4 as a point of comparison. Certainly, many details differ when comparing IPv4 and IPv6. However, many core concepts about IP addressing, subnetting, routing, and routing protocols remain the same. The chapters in this part build on those foundational concepts, adding the specific details about how IPv6 forwards IPv6 packets from one host to another.
Chapter 25: Fundamentals of IP Version 6