June 2013
Beginner
950 pages
30h 26m
English
The one remaining piece of the IPv6 story for this book is how routers learn IPv6 routes. The easiest and most common way to make all routers learn all the correct routes is to use a dynamic IPv6 routing protocol, like Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) version 3 (OSPFv3). So, this chapter discusses the basics of OSPFv3 implementation, in the third major section of this chapter.
However, so far this book has not yet discussed other simpler ways that routers can add IPv6 routes to their routing tables: connected, local, and static routes. The first section of this chapter walks you through the details of how IPv6, similar to IPv4, adds both connected and local routes based on each interface IPv6 address. The ...